Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment

Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by fontain on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:33AM (#48207478)

I’m 50. All startup news looks like this:

“Payments via Zoosha? K-smog and Batboy launch new startup.”

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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by echelon on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:38AM (#48207565)

It's better than that trend of taking English words and removing the final vowels before "r" or some other consonant.

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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by nemomarx on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:41AM (#48207617)

I'm not actually sure Wubi and Tubu are better than something like Cashr tbh

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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by jawilson2 on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @10:14AM (#48208187)

Or adding "-ly" at the end.

"Just use Cashly!" "Download Crditly"

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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by abustamam on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @12:44PM (#48210503)

It's bonkers to me that Box and Square are two totally different companies in two totally different industries

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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by seritools on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @11:51AM (#48209759)

then add a second r and it's suddenly piracy or torrent related!

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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by HoldOnAMinute on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:49AM (#48207769)

Obliteratr

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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by mattkevan on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:55AM (#48207858)

Obltrtr

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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by abustamam on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @12:43PM (#48210489)

Vowels are _so_ 1900s

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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by overfeed on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @12:43PM (#48210494)

We're appending "AI" now to English words, to match the Anguilla TLD that are fashionable and will never become dated.

- Mike, co-founder of MoistAI

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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by danielbln on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @01:25PM (#48211079)

Ah yes, that hot trend from 2010.

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