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Gabe Newell explains why Steam banned NFTs

by nest0r on 2/25/22, 8:23 PM with 3 comments

  • by WoahNoun on 2/25/22, 8:40 PM

    50% of their crypto transactions were fraudulent.

    >"The things that were being done were super sketchy," Newell told Eurogamer. "And there was some illegal shit that was going on behind the scenes, and you're just like, yeah, this is bad.

  • by mysterydip on 2/25/22, 8:26 PM

    "making users pay for digital items of artificial scarcity is our business model!"