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I’m Amazed at that. I had no idea the US had caught up and had electronic payments.

• dclowd9901 2y ago
  I’m guessing for chip reading? It’s one-time transaction key so I don’t think it works async.
• anal_reactor 2y ago
  All five payment terminals in Germany are down. "Unfortunately, all online governmental services are affected. All two of them" says the chancellor.
• weberer 2y ago
  What are you talking about? Credit cards have been around since the 1950's
  • Kye 2y ago
    For much of their history they were written down or copied on carbon paper and manually processed by phone later. Electronic processing came in the 70s and wasn't universally used until much later. I saw plenty of credit card imprinters in use well into the 90s when I was growing up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_imprinter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_imprinter Card issuers only stopped embossing them recently.