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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by ramon156 on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:38AM (#48207567)
I think any dutchie can vouch that iDeal has been amazing. I would also like to add that Wise has been amazing for american payments. I needed it for Anthropic at the time, and this worked good enough
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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by DonHopkins on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:45AM (#48207707)
Certainly better and easier to say than Chipknip!
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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by jeroenhd on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:54AM (#48207852)
Funnily enough, the ECB's Digital Euro initiative has a lot in common with the chipknip, except you can now also charge your wallet with larger amounts of money.
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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by DonHopkins on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @10:10AM (#48208117)
Chipknip has the mouth feel of Gnip Gnop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX2bqI--c-k

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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by beng-nl on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @10:53AM (#48208881)
RIP chipknip. But let’s appreciate its ambition: electronic payments without being online.
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