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  • I thought your point was it was never happening? I provided examples where it did happen in the past and where its happening now. Volatility of the price vs USD is not the biggest issue if the payment processor gives the vendor USD back after the transaction. If the vendor believes in crypto, they can decide to keep it as well. Had Valve chosen to hold their crypto earnings in 2016 for a few years, they'd have seen even larger profits. But thats beside the point. I personally believe they canned it more because of transaction fees. At the time, bitcoin network was oversaturated due to an explosion of popularity which reduced it to unusable levels for everyday transactions.

    You should be focusing on why other vendors are still supporting crypto and asking yourself why.

  • Never gonna happen is a bit of a stretch. It used to be a thing. Steam accepted bitcoin. They stopped accepting it due to volatility and high transaction fees at the time. You still price things in your local currency but convert at checkout. There are "plug and play" payment processors who can handle it now.. Spar in Switzerland accepts it.

    But imo, its not something regular people should be using anyway.

  • I generally agree with you and its what I did, but why do i need yet another device plugged in, draining power all the time? I dont want to leave an even larger co2 footprint and software support on existing hardware could aid in that. The android box is a workaround, not a green enough solution in my opinion.

  • Interestingly, this is possible without anything else today. It works totally different today than it did at that time, but the end result is the same: video on your watch. I'm always amazed by how tech moves. As a kid, I wondered how nice it would be if I had a device on me that did everything and I could even turn the lights off with it. I'm actually able to do that today.

  • Here it boils down to:

    • Network power (fixed fee based on your max power needs, depends on time as well, can be 3.6€ / kw in winter months)
    • Network energy transfer (fee for energy transfered, here its about 0.018€/kwh)
    • Energy (fee on the energy used, about 0.146€/kwh right now)
    • VAT
    • some bullshit for maintenance and running an open market portal for companies to buy/sell energy (like 1-3€)
  • I wish steam deck os would get this. I installed it a few times but it gets overwritten with updates.

    I have a few old style xbox one controllers (without bluetooth) and need a xb wireless dongle to use them. It works fine with this driver.