The operating cost of adult and gambling startups

Post by littlecranky67 » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 2:46 PM UTC

brohee wrote: post #74

littlecranky67 wrote: post #4

> A regular provider charges a regular commission but will not work with you, while another will want a commission 10 times higher and will agree, but may stop working with you at any time. I know I will get downvoted for this because it is an unpopular opinion, but this exactly the reason why we need bitcoin as a means of payments without any middlemen involved.

The miners are the middlemen, and they can chose to take your transaction or not. Should bitcoin ever be actually used for payment, it's not to too far fetched to think miners could be forbidden to validate transactions involving a blacklist of addresses...

Post by usui » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC

malfist wrote: post #21

engineer_22 wrote: post #12

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I live in New York. A very old very famous manufacturer of firearms, Remington Arms, which employed hundreds of people and was the economic engine of its community was forced by the State of New York to shut down. That community cannot replace what was lost when the factory closed. Poverty, crime, drugs have moved in to the void. You may be right that guns are are corrosive to a democratic society, that's an open deb…

Your statement is not grounded in the truth. Remnington did not shut down because of government interference. They employed a grand total of 100 people in NY. Hardly the "economic engine of its community" They shutdown because they sold 7.5 million guns that could fire without someone pulling the trigger and 60 minutes exposed it. And you should know that their building is being converted into a 250,000 sqft AI data…

Post by sigmoid10 » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 3:02 PM UTC

VectorLock wrote: post #59

sigmoid10 wrote: post #46

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I mean, you also can't advertise illegal drugs either. Doesn't seem to curb demand though. It may actually be more beneficial to allow these things more broadly, because then social safety features can be wedged in between consumers and suppliers more easily and they don't have to deal with a gigantic shadow market that already gets stigmatised to death by the rest of the population. Just accept that a certain percen…

>Doesn't seem to curb demand though. Because its an addictive product. See also: gambling.

Post by malfist » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 3:12 PM UTC

usui wrote: post #83

malfist wrote: post #21

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Your statement is not grounded in the truth. Remnington did not shut down because of government interference. They employed a grand total of 100 people in NY. Hardly the "economic engine of its community" They shutdown because they sold 7.5 million guns that could fire without someone pulling the trigger and 60 minutes exposed it. And you should know that their building is being converted into a 250,000 sqft AI data…

What are you talking about regarding firing guns without pulling the trigger?

Post by sigmoid10 » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 3:19 PM UTC

VectorLock wrote: post #86

sigmoid10 wrote: post #85

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That's literally the content of this discussion? Or did you want to say something else?

Is that what you meant by "dopamine households?"