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Re:Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing? by lostcolony on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:31PM (#25875995)
That's pricing in the risk of taking the charge. The $10 transaction is 10x as risky to a credit network's bottom line as the $1 transaction. That's also why the debit percentage is lower.
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