I can really relate to this post, celebrating my birthday with a party for the first time in 10+ years in 2025, it truly had a massive impact on my mental health and it made me realize I should throw little gatherings much more often.
Great write-up and encouragement on the author's part.
Just because the carrier of energy is source independent, doesn't mean the consumer of that energy is not responsible for the carbon emissions of its production. Since we're talking hundreds of TWh[1], the policies of those consumers can have a massive impact on global emissions.
This is true in many situations, but setting up full self-maintained payment processing isn't really a feasible option for small or even larger development teams. Payment processing is heavily regulated with many legal requirements, not to mention the countless security threats.
I think the problem was in the gateway to USD. If they only accepted crypto, and paid it out to the sex workers, then it would work. But in the real world your average John has a credit card, not crypto, and your average sex workers can't pay their rent or buy groceries using crypto. The problem was, and always is, the gateways to fiat. And I don't see a solution to that.
There's is no user-friendly solution, but I don't see why it would not be possible to send money to/from a -say- Kraken wallet to a wallet used to buy/sell sexual services from an app. It's just a bit of hassle to transfer.
Not including the on-ramp from fiat to crypto inside the app would solve the issue, I would think.
The first half of paying for the services maybe. But you’ve just pushed the problem of converting from crypto to $DOLLAR to the service provider.
I don’t think Coinbase for example would knowingly allow a prostitute, whose inbound source of tokens is coming from a digital pimping service, to convert them to USD and then ACH the cash to her local bank.
...and then the people who were pissed at Facebook and Twitter went off and made their own Facebook and Twitter because making a website has very little in the way of barriers to entry.
Bob- and apartment-owner here. We have a small kitchen and just don't have the space for a full-sized dishwasher. Bob fits snugly in the cabinet under the sink and runs once a day for a 2-person household.
It's perfect for our needs and saves us a lot of both time and water.
I found the most easy way to motivate people to switch, is to just remove your WhatsApp profile-picture and set your status to something like "Find me on Signal".
The amount of people reaching out via WhatsApp lowered drastically, all (but one) of my main contacts are now also on Signal.
Not based on actual research, but my guess is that with Edge, you'll now have Google phone-homing combined with Microsoft phone-homing. Unless Microsoft actively went out of their way to remove calls to Google, there may still be many present, as found in many reports about Chromium.
Great write-up and encouragement on the author's part.