Fiat currencies, especially those issued by the Federal Reserve, are in the most severe of SEC violations. If the Fed was an OTCBB stock, the SEC would have to regard it as stock printing press; having no intrinsic value. Turning any cryptocurrency into FRNs and having governmental hassles amounts to entrapment. FRNs have no value, except what people are willing to part with in order to receive them. The stock market is often called the greater fool market. The lack of value in fiat currency is reason why folks turn to gold, silver, cryptocurrencies, barter, etc.
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I don't disagree at all. However, fiat is what most places currently operate on, so I don't have much of a choice at the moment. I'd love to develop my own merchant services to sell to merchants here locally, but I'm no engineer or developer, and I don't have the capital to pay others. I'll have to make due until then :D
@anarcho-andrei, have you looked at the Bitcoin site? They offer merchant accounts. Just add:
/merchant-solutions
to their home page. This could be one of the several temporary bridges for you.
BTW, seeing your alias, you might want to check out my profile and my introduce yourself post.
Upon a bit of thinking, you can contact Ned Scott (@certainassets, Steemit: @ned) our CEO and inquire if he and his team are or will consider offering merchant account services for Steem.