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s1m0n4

@RubenWA it's not what I mean.
I am talking about real credit cards, not just a #PayPal alternative allowing online payments.
You can avoid using PayPal and just purchase with your credit card, and there are different national services handling that transaction online.
But not a single EU country has a circuit like #Visa or #MasterCard. We had local debit cards s circuits and even those are being unified under Maestro, which belongs to Mastercard.

#banking#payments
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@katrinakatrinka @digyoursoul @molly0xfff OFC, it has all the drawbacks of "self-custody cash, but digital"...

I just see #Monero as a better alternstive to an #AMEX, #VISA, #MasterCard or #PayPal!

And unlike Other #Cryptocurrencies it's free of #SmartContracts and #NFTs so not on the perpetual tire fire that is @web3isgreat ...

  • Not gonna claim it's better than #Euro banknotes, but unless you have a bank account in #SEPA where you can use #wero, it's the fastest way to do #CashlessPayments remotely/online...
#euro#sepa#wero
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

Except THIS is not how any of this works!....

#Trump literally lashing out against friends and neighbours will only backfire hard, and I expect @EUCommission and @europarl_en to enact #PrizeFreezes for #US #products & #services whilst forcing #Retaliatory #Tariffs on all US #products and espechally #services, demanding 100%+ in all #fees, and #revenue of #GAFAMs' services and products to the point that they'll effectively cancel half their revenue that flows back.

  • Plus forcing all products and services to be processed and sold via a #EU-based #corporation and adding a 30% "#AlienTax" as the #USA already does for i.e. #App #developers that ain't from the US even if they never sold a single license to a US customer.

Not to mention cancelling any #DataProtection agreements that only stalled the foreseeable court decision that #CloudAct is incompatible with #GDPR, thus banning #Office365 / #Microsoft365, #iCloud et. al. from the EU!

Given #Trump can't be assed to even fake any #loyality or #allied status even for the cameras, this is a #ForeseeableConsequence.

Unless we want to end up #downgraded into the state of a US-occupied overseas possession without statehood, like #Guam, #PuertoRico or #AVI...

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✍️ Eljo #MorpurgoMedia

#DeNederlandseBank laat opnieuw weten dat het zich zorgen maakt over de #Amerikaanse invloed op onze #pintransacties. Wie pint, maakt vaak gebruik van de techniek van #Visa en #MasterCard. Omdat die onder de jurisdictie van president T r u m p vallen, zou die hun diensten kunnen gebruiken om ons betalingsverkeer te dwarsbomen.

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