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Re:10 Reasons to Fight Cashless Contagion by cowbolt on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @12:07PM (#38100292)
Norway and Denmark have national card schemes (BankAxept and Dankort) which are used for virtually all PoS transactions. They cost a fraction of the transaction costs that Visa and Mastercard charge. These arose by banks agreeing to a standardized solution.

Was there ever any attempt to do something similar in the US?

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Re:10 Reasons to Fight Cashless Contagion by AaronM on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @12:37PM (#38100829)
Doubtful; the card processors would probably lobby hard against it, and given our current state of politics would never pass
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