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You are welcome to use many different payment rails with Amazon, Burger King, etc. Between them Patrick McKenzie and Dan Davies are pretty good on why people u
by pixodaros 2y ago
You are welcome to use many different payment rails with Amazon, Burger King, etc. Between them Patrick McKenzie and Dan Davies are pretty good on why people use the rails they do, and which blood wrote the financial regulations governing them.
- konschubert 2y agoAll of the alternatives are more cumbersome than just unlocking my phone and tapping the terminal. That's the thing that has to change.
- pixodaros 2y agoCan't you just whip out a card, stick it in a reader, enter your pin, click "yes" and pay by bank debit? If you are using a smartphone app that is an intermediary right there. Its hard to be specific without knowing what country you live in.
- konschubert 2y agoI live in Germany. I want to pay by bank debit, worldwide, with my smartwatch. I don’t want the smartwatch maker to be an intermediary to the transaction, it’s just a tool I use to store my payment credentials.