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Adult game developer’s PayPal funds held for over a month despite being legitimately sold on Steam [80k GBP]
(www.gamepressure.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2025
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So when dealing with volume purchases via a secondary store front (as established in the article) doesn't need any kind of intercession from Steam or another processor to deal with any and all purchases? It's all completely autonomous with no intervention needed by anyone at all?
As long as merchant doesn't need to convert from crypto to regular currency, no third party is involved in the transaction, it's a direct P2P system - in other words - perfect digital cash
So you just need to say "I give this person .001 bitcoin" and they magically get it? That's wild to me.
Yes, simply put, that's how it works. You should read the whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
The first sentence: