Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant

Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by hcarvalhoalves on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @12:44PM (#43623768)

Correcting the blatant misinformation about the topic:

- PIX project started in 2016, public launch in 2020

- It was not "launched" by any President; the Brazilian Central Bank is an independent authority, with it own mandate, not a branch of the executive power

- PIX was co-developed with institutions of the financial sector

- It's a protocol that participants must implement, not an app. The specification is even on GitHub. I don't know what you mean by "its code is nowhere to be found".

- The Brazilian Central Bank is acknowledged as a benchmark, rather than "proverbially incompetent public work force"

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Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by mndgs on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @02:36PM (#43625103)

It's based on ISO20022 messaging standard. Networking and security is typically custom in each country/standardized payment system.

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Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by dkga on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @06:46PM (#43627221)

There you go: https://github.com/bacen/pix-api

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Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by Vox_Leone on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @07:16AM (#43630898)

Your arguments are pretty lame. Pix was indeed launched in the Bolsonaro administration, but it is incidental. You are flailing around the bulk of my argument, which is about the source code openness, without actually attacking it.

It might as well be illegal today.

Art. 16 da Lei nº 14.063, de 23/09/2021: estabelece que os sistemas de informação e de comunicação desenvolvidos exclusivamente pela administração pública são regidos por licença de código aberto, permitida a sua utilização, cópia, alteração e distribuição sem restrições por todos os órgãos e entidades públicos.[0]

Art. 16 of Law No. 14,063, of 09/23/2021: establishes that information and communication systems developed exclusively by the public administration are governed by an open source license, allowing their use, copying, alteration and distribution without restrictions by all public bodies and entities.[0]

[0]https://www.gov.br/governodigital/pt-br/plataformas-e-servic...

So, lets open up its code!

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Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by hcarvalhoalves on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @11:05AM (#43632965)

You should read up on "autarquia federal". The Central Bank is not part of the government.

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