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Im pretty sure they want to not be associated with the sale of those goods. In a lot of cases if they have anything between it they can use it as a defense. In the case of credit with the current backlash they can point out that absolutely none of the payments they have processed were used for these items. They can show proof because the transactions are all for credit and not for a specific good. Basically they don't want their name associated with it and if they have the protection of a middle man they get that. If someone demands of you what someone purchased you can say they bought that with our credit. They get to say they didn't facilitate the sale of that product.

I don't know much about crypto and can tell you it's hard to justify in my mind trying to use crypto not knowing much about it. I don't know how to get any don't know where I would go to find out and for me and likely a lot of people that would be a big turn off. 

On a different side from the view of payment processors. They don't want their name attached to the purchase of those products and this does that. If anyone asks them if they were used to purchase them they can officially claim that at no point were they used to purchase that product as they never did. They only processed a payment for store credit.

Itch credit is a credit system used to purchase products on itch.io. this credit is used in place of USD, euro, yen or any other currency. To purchase an itch credit just use your credit/debit/PayPal (whatever) with our credit system to get your itch credit. Then use your itch credits to purchase any product we have for sale.

What do we tell those pesky payment processors? The truth that the money was used to get itch credit. What do we tell them when they asked what that was used for? Well that is none of their business as that has nothing to do with their services and would breach the privacy of our customers.

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But in all seriousness insert something between the processors so that they have no say over it. They can't complain if all their processing is a store credit that they have no say over how it's being used. They are not processing a payment for the game big booty b*****es or whatever they are processing a payment of 10$ for 10 itch credits or whatever you use.