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Actually, I just looked it up and you appear to be wrong about my perception having been US-centric.

https://www.mercuryminds.com/blog/preferred-payment-methods-...

It's from 2017, would be interesting to see if crypto has taken over so significanly since then.

Credit/debit apparently dominate in most parts of the world for online commerce, as well as other non-crypto mobile payment systems, like country-specific e-wallets (for example Yandex.Money in Russia).

30 million users is probably big in the crypto space but when talking about global populations it's not, so yeah, that's only a geeky niche and thus the assumption that the average porn watcher will most likely have a cc# (or equivalent non-crypto mobile payment) and have no idea how to set up a crypto wallet seems totally valid.




Nice link thanks.

Yea 30M is still small now, it's the rate of adoption that matters. Metamask was at 2M users at the start of 2021, hit 10M at the end of August (https://consensys.net/blog/press-release/metamask-surpasses-...) and then 30M in March 2022 (https://decrypt.co/95039/metamask-consensys-30-million-users)

And this is just one crypto wallet, there are a handful of others too. It will probably slow during the crypto bear market, but that's insanely fast growth. I can see it being quite common for people to have either their own crypto wallet or one provided via their bank in the next decade. Having a browser plugin to pay for anything with one click (with 2FA for bigger purchases) is a much better experience than having to enter your credit card onto many different sites.




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