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Re:Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial informat... by rusk on Monday August 06, 2018 @04:35PM (#17701566)
Cryptocurrency? Ah come on you’re just being facetious now
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Re:Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial informat... by mbrock on Monday August 06, 2018 @04:43PM (#17701634)
Why? I’ve paid for computer equipment and plane tickets using cryptocurrency several times. Just scan a QR code and press send.
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Re:Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial informat... by rusk on Monday August 06, 2018 @05:09PM (#17701799)
Man I’ve literally never encountered this
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Re:Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial informat... by mbrock on Monday August 06, 2018 @05:24PM (#17701901)
I’ve also encountered friends at lunch using mobile crypto wallets to split the bill. “Can I just send you some dai?”
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Re:Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial informat... by rusk on Monday August 06, 2018 @05:33PM (#17701964)
I can tell you that if you tried that out my way you’d just a quizzical look (-:
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Re:Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial informat... by mbrock on Monday August 06, 2018 @05:49PM (#17702072)
Kinda like when someone from the U.S. mentions Venmo to a European. :)
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Re:Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial informat... by rusk on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @04:52AM (#17704835)
I'm a European.

Venmo?

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Re:Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial informat... by mbrock on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @05:09AM (#17704897)
It's one of the dozens of proprietary corporate mobile payment systems that only work in specific nationalities and only in conjunction with bank accounts...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mobile_payments

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Re:Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial informat... by rusk on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:14PM (#17709653)
I guess that’s the kind of thing that PSD2 will enamel on a pan European scale
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