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The fact that OnlyFans isn't even trying to move to crypto to keep their business alive is a stunning indictment of the state of crypto as a viable payment method.

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Couldn't the explanation be as simple as them lacking imagination? They're not a Silicon Valley funded startup. My impression is they lucked into the golden goose, and this move makes me think they're downright clueless about their options when things get adversarial.

I guess that's possible, but it's hard for me to imagine that with billions of dollars at stake they didn't even consider it. I think they made the calculation that forcing their customers and creators to use crypto would lose them even more business than banning their core product.

I just can't fathom such a risk-averse decision. I mean, their business is dead. Even if you're not normally the type of leader to bet the farm on a wild shot, certainly it's the rational choice when the other option is a guaranteed 90% loss in expected valuation.

What are those last 10% worth to you? Unless it's still the difference between personal financial independence and wage slavery for the majority owner, I can't see how that's the rational choice. That's why I'm concluding lack of imagination and borderline incompetency.

Why do we somehow assume that OnlyFans - a company that basically stumbled into success with zero innovation or business prowess - is even capable of adopting crypto in such way?

Of all companies that could adopt mass crypto this one would be somewhere at the bottom of the list imho.

It's really just an indictment of OnlyFans lacking any imagination, or, well, balls. They are going to crash and burn anyways - they could have at least tried something like this. Instead they will just pathetically fizzle out, desperately clutching to the few pennies they will have left after this, unwilling to take a risk that might reap great reward and actual change.

Who says they won't? PH did when this happened to them. Now they accepting like 60 diffferent cryptocurrencies.

There simply aren't enough consumers with crypto to spend yet.

The percentage of consumers with crypto is maybe 1%. The percentage with credit cards is maybe 90%. If OnlyFans moves to crypto, they cut their addressable market by 98%.

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