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In Canada people can pay you by having your email or phone number in their bank app. Works really well!
by aprdm 6y ago
In Canada people can pay you by having your email or phone number in their bank app.
Works really well!
- mixmastamyk 6y agoThat's problematic and not as good as direct bank to bank transfers.
- alphakilo 6y agoElectronic Money Transfer (EMT)/e-transfering is a bank-to-bank transfer in Canada.
- mixmastamyk 6y agoIt may be convenient use other ids besides bank account numbers, but it adds another avenue for mistakes.
- frosted-flakes 6y agoSuch as...? To me, passing around a long unstructured numeric string is a lot more error-prone than selecting a contact from my banking app, or writing a short, structured phone number or email address. In any case, the recipient needs to know the secret one-word answer to the question set by the sender, which would prevent wrong parties from claiming money (this can be skipped if the recipient registered their phone number or email address forbauto-deposit).
- mixmastamyk 6y agoThey are not unstructured and have checksum digits in proper implementations.