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Oh boy, more news from our friendly neighbourhood psychopath
"Hello everybody. I apologize for having so rarely updated the news lately. They simply were not enough. In this text I will try to describe the situation in as much detail as possible.
in June we turned to the person who promised to start processing for us very quickly. This man is a co-owner of the bank and we had reason to trust him. Alas, an unforeseen happened - his bank was not in the best country and got sudden trouble, as a result, our cooperation with them never began. And we lost a month.
We began to use other options. And it was disappointing. We had to read a gigabyte of disgusting and absurd text garbage in trying to go all the way completely independently. As you know, we never give up and we are not afraid of difficulties.
if briefly, then all the problems can be described thus:
- Most processing companies (like Stripe) are not ready to work with citizens of countries such as Russia, Ukraine and.
And the registration of the company on the territory of the EU and US strata will lead to losses in the form of a very high tax. We are used to lower taxes, much less. In this case, we would have to pay taxes even in our countries - less, but in fact this is a loss of 35-40% in total.
Which is completely unacceptable. I guess you would not be happy if we had to add this to the prices, right?
But this is not the end of the bad news.
- a lot of processing companies either do not work with content 18+, or have an absurd appetite and require 12-15% of all payments. Many of our team after months of long discussions began to speak out for the idea in general to stop doing what we did and focus on other markets. Refuse from fetishes, furries and generally 18+ content. Our skills allow us to make some very nice demo and raise funding for this project with a significantly larger target audience than those sponsors who have remained in the A-club.
And if we thought only of ourselves and our short-term incomes, and also moved along the path of least resistance - perhaps we would have surrendered at that stage and reported the closure of the project and the abandonment of all this fuss (for this damn huge amount of work we do not get paid , moreover - all these company registrations, payment of certificates and a more powerful server required us to invest our own revenues. And these were very tangible investments for us).
But as you probably already noticed - we are stubborn guys who always go to the end.
so we did not give up. The option to give 12-15% of our income or to put this additional expense into the price - we found it unfair and disgusting. The world is full of injustice and we want to make it a little better. Around a lot of money bags, which use the complexity of all these processes, the impudence of payment systems and banks. And they earn these 15% of their own in this immeasurably less effort than we invest in our work. We thought that in this area you need to change something. To give the thousands of other artists an alternative. The ability to stop depend on all these greedy bastards and sell your work quickly and easily.
with a minimum of pricing for maintenance of the technical part and finance. A way that will be more convenient than Patreon.
This is a rather unpleasant realization - "big uncles with big money" multiply their money even faster and more, just preventing normal children from doing their work honestly. They repeatedly rob them in many different ways, forcing them to give significant money. And without doing anything special, nothing - requiring constant work. We felt that all this is very unfair and the world definitely needs a platform that will solve all these problems. Reduces the number of bloodsuckers-intermediaries on the way between the buyer and the seller.
We turned our attention to crypto-currencies. crypto-currencies are freedom. This is an opportunity to lose less than 1% of the transaction. This is an opportunity to get rid of any crazy whims of Visa, MasterCard and analogues. Get rid of crooks, skillfully using the arrogance and insolence of payment systems. If someone pays with a stolen credit card or a parent's bank card ... in the end, he does not bear due responsibility for this. And the only victim - the artist, whose content is stolen. We also intend to solve this problem. Radically and as simply as possible.
At the same time, we understand that not all of you are ready to dive into this mire and understand all the difficulties that we had to deal with. just to understand how it works, how reliable it is and how it works.
We figured it out. Also have found simple variants. Found more complex options. And we are in the last discussion about which way to go. Or - follow both ways. We want to do everything beautifully, logically and most importantly - fairly.
We want to create a service not only for ourselves, but for all other artists who need it. Artists who are unlucky to be born "in a bad country". They just want to work honestly, getting fair money for it and not losing 50% of that money along the way.
We are working on a solution. Still. There is such a solution.
Yes. This is hard. And I do not want to make too optimistic predictions now. But I will tell you at what stage we are.
We are moving in two ways.
1 - traditional payment systems and bank cards. To get rid of all their shortcomings, cut off all the arrogant claims of their owners - we need a "game currency." The customer will buy it. Not content. This will circumvent the many delusions and whims of these systems. But not all of them will be ready to work in this scheme. We have weeded out scores of too capricious and arrogant and conduct a long correspondence with those who show signs of adequacy. In the process, we are pointed to certain nuances about which we need to read more, consult with lawyers and accountants. We are moving towards the goal, but we are not sure that the solution in this area will be optimal. It's just an attempt "to clear your conscience." We are tired of them all very much.
2 way. Crypto currency. It turned out that it is not so difficult and not so scary and dangerous. However, from the moment when we began to consider this option optimal - many countries realized. Bloodsuckers who parasitize on someone else's labor, controlling financial flows - understood the danger of another's freedom. They realized that crypto-currencies threatened to exclude all parasitic abominations from the "buyer-seller" process. They realized that their services could become unnecessary expenses. And now they are actively docking crypto-currencies at all levels that control. However, they are unlikely to win this war.
We are just sure of it. Progress can not be stopped.
And now we see such a decision:
on our site will be posted short (2-3 minutes) video, clearly showing how easy it works. You really need only 5-7 presses of the "ok" button in the first session and fill out the registration data. Then - once a month, press the button on our website "renew subscription". And the availability of money on your bank card.
It will be really easy. And this will save us from all the difficulties. And you - from any margins because of the arrogance of intermediaries. Although no ...
Although no ... robbery at the stage of "payment by bank card" still will not disappear. This will be approximately 3-4%, the minimum loss. But, I hope this will not be too critical in the future - as the crypto currency will push out the old ones - I am sure that this will change. Well, or you will have the opportunity to acquire a crypto currency for your work. The currency is simply the equivalent of labor. And there is no difference in what color "pieces of paper" measured your work. One type of paper needs more, one type of paper - less. Some papers are valued more, some are less. But the price of your work is always the same. You choose how many pieces of paper you want for the day of your work.
So, summarizing.
We still hope that we can accept bank cards. If we manage to convince the processing company to abandon the delusions of delirium and find a solution with us that will suit both sides. But I will say right away - now we see how unlikely this is. While it is a question of a shallow sum, not about millions of dollars - they find it of little interest to look for this solution. They do not want to change anything.
Crypto currency - found a simple and quick way to buy and sell them.
There is a service that allows you to make an instant purchase of crypto currency in one click. On our website you will see a button with the subscription price. Clicking this button, you will see a window in which once you need to register (the same service, it is reliable and well protected). After this, when you click this button from the payment system you specify - the paypal, bank account or bank card), the number of dollars indicated on the button + the% that is taken for the services of your payment facility by those who control it will be cleared. This amount will be instantly converted into a crypto currency. Which will be as instantly transferred to us. On our side, this will be converted into our currency just as quickly. The whole process will probably take a minute or a little longer. So both we and you will be protected from the course jumps. In fact, if the jump in the exchange rate occurs at the time when you have already sent the payment, but we have not yet received this money - it will be for us a loss of several dollars. And this is a permissible loss, a risk that we are ready to fully assume.
Thanks to this scheme, you will be able to spend on this project the previous amount. As if paid through Patreon. Just instead of the patron or other greedy special bastards - behind the scenes of this theater there will be very different guys. With much less appetite. They will take 1-2% from us. Without limiting what kind of content we can do for you. Not interfering in our relations. Crypto currency is perfect. A scheme without all flaws. I believe that the future lies behind them. After successfully testing this scheme, we will agitate all the artists to leave the unfriendly sneaky Patreon and move on to this scheme of work. In this case, the artists will not lose 10% of their earnings, but only 4-5%. 2% - services of the currency and 2% -5% which we will charge for our services. Patreon now picks himself up from 10%. And does not protect the artists in any way. On the contrary, a lot of dirty laundry was opened, which I will write about later, when we start an advertising campaign.
I'm a little tired of messing around with this and writing this text. It's time to rest a little. Soon we will start everything. And we want to add that part of our team in these months slowly learned various techniques and technologies. The Hetty project will be completed quickly enough and we have already begun to make some sketches for other projects. One of the sketches you see above. Closer to the end of Hetty, we will post a few such pictures and hold a vote - you will be able to choose the project that will be next. Or we can run 2-3 projects in parallel, if among the members of the A-club there are enough people who want to spend money on it. All projects will have separate funding.
Oh yes. Another important point. Lottery prizes for the whole last year. We will make all these prizes in a month after the launch of the payment system. Since many people left or left us at that stage - we believe it is fair that only those who stayed with us before the finals will receive prizes. After all, when calculating how many pages per month we will create - prize pictures since April of last year were no longer put into the budget. This is a free bonus.
Visit us in the area of 10-12 October - probably by this time there will be more positive news or you will see the button "renew subscrthemselves
So it appears he's now tackling the big banks themselves, because how dare they have rules and regulations that lose him profit.
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