Highlighting because it's important. We recently got a totally free and open payments system, probably hundreds of them in fact, and they're a disaster. All the inequity and risk that any money system inherently possesses, with zero protections for anyone involved and zero recourse if you're robbed blind, unless of course you're wealthy in which case the people actually in charge who insist they aren't in charge will write a whole bunch more code to give you you're money back even though that's not how this works for anyone else. And that's not even getting into the fact that every seven transactions used as much electricity as Visa uses per minute to handle hundreds of thousands.
And I mean, I'd agree if there weren't still a substantial community of people swearing up and down that it was the future, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Highlighting because it's important. We recently got a totally free and open payments system, probably hundreds of them in fact, and they're a disaster. All the inequity and risk that any money system inherently possesses, with zero protections for anyone involved and zero recourse if you're robbed blind, unless of course you're wealthy in which case the people actually in charge who insist they aren't in charge will write a whole bunch more code to give you you're money back even though that's not how this works for anyone else. And that's not even getting into the fact that every seven transactions used as much electricity as Visa uses per minute to handle hundreds of thousands.