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Re:Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin by adrianN on Monday November 26, 2018 @04:19AM (#18532083)
The EU proposed limiting transaction fees to 0.2%. I don't know whether that is law already or not.
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Re:Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin by thesimon on Monday November 26, 2018 @07:47AM (#18532927)
0.2% for debit cards, 0.3% for credit cards.

Only applies to consumer cards and only the interchange (ie. the part that the bank of your card gets). MasterCard and Visa fees are still quite substantial.

A regular merchant would now pay < 1%, so quite a bit cheaper than before.

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Re:Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin by dalore on Monday November 26, 2018 @11:52AM (#18534663)
Looks like it was 0.3%

https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/news-insights/insight...

The outcome was that they cut back on lots of loyalty programs, and not many businesses passed on the cost savings to the consumers.

So sounds like limiting the fees had an adverse effect on the consumer.

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