Re:You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why The...
by arcticbull on Friday February 22, 2019 @05:09PM
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Credit card fees are 2-3% for a reason -- you can get 2% cash back as a customer with a no-annual-fee card for instance. Then there's the fact that credit cards are loans, and there's a cost to lending. Finally, credit cards come with protections (chargebacks), guarantees, additional warranties and all sort of other customer-friendly services that people want. And obviously are willing to pay 2-3% for.
In the EU where people don't want the system to work like that interchange fees were capped in 2015 at 0.2% for debit and 0.3% for credit [1]. If that's what you want, there's a proven model for establishing it. In Australia it's capped at 0.88% for credit and the greater of 16.5c or 0.22% on debit [2].
Did you know Bitcoin alone ALREADY used 0.5% of world electricity at the end of 2018, even though nobody really uses it? [3] It's like we're all paying a 0.5% surcharge on top of everything we do, which is double the price of EU interchange. Just to support some ancap pyramid scheme that people agree solves largely 1 class of problem: payments for illegal goods and services, while pretending to solve all the worlds problems, just poorly.
In the EU where people don't want the system to work like that interchange fees were capped in 2015 at 0.2% for debit and 0.3% for credit [1]. If that's what you want, there's a proven model for establishing it. In Australia it's capped at 0.88% for credit and the greater of 16.5c or 0.22% on debit [2].
Did you know Bitcoin alone ALREADY used 0.5% of world electricity at the end of 2018, even though nobody really uses it? [3] It's like we're all paying a 0.5% surcharge on top of everything we do, which is double the price of EU interchange. Just to support some ancap pyramid scheme that people agree solves largely 1 class of problem: payments for illegal goods and services, while pretending to solve all the worlds problems, just poorly.
[1] https://www.adyen.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-eu...
[2] https://www.adyen.com/blog/card-processing-in-australia-just...
[3] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180516131236.h...