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The Chinese jokingly call Trump "Comrade Jianguo", because of how his trade war has made China become more independent and stopped relying as much on American companies.

In the same way Trump's latest tantrum seems to be good for the Europe.

That's the Trump bump! And it's only been eight weeks.

Or is it hump 🤔?

Look into Wero. Only a couple countries and people to people payments for now, but should take off quickly as a universal Euro payement method

It's about time.

Canada shares a land border with Denmark and a maritime border with France.

I think that is sufficient to include them in any extended EU schemes.

(To the degree that they want it, of course)

There is GNU Taler which is quite cool, but thats not really ready for use yet sadly.

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I mean, it still works for getting around Visa and Mastercard. For instance it can be used to make donations to various media piracy groups. It's just that it's so useful to scammers and many people see the technology as a whole as being one 'brand'.

It really depends on the cryptocurrency in question. Some coins are much more credible than others. Lumping them all in together is like saying that the Japanese Yen and the Lebanese Pound are the same.

Imagine a future where Taler Systems SA becomes a financial powerhouse, holding a significant percentage of Euros to issue as tokens! Swiss bank accounts 2.0, giving Tether and USDC a run for their money.

Yay GNU Taler is very promising, but I fear banks prefer proprietary systems.

It may become widely used if there's strong customer demand for GNU Taler, or regulation requiring an open electronic wallet. Most banks would probably be dragging their feet.

It has been a while since this appeared; I wonder if it picks up steam. Now or never?

Is it? Doesn't look like they offer debit/credit cards.

Looks more like a PayPal alternative.

Samsung have their own wallet app, too. There are also a number of alternatives to Visa and Mastercard, but unfortunately, they are not as widespread or are limited to a particular countries banking system. In Canada, we have Interac, for example.

Yeah, that is what happened to DLSite. It sells Japanese media such as hentai, so Visa & Mastercard put a universal ban on their products, no matter the category. It is a 1st Amendment violation IMO, since they are gatekeeping an entire culture.

I can easily see MasterVisa banning European or Canadian merchants for the sake of a Trump Regime.

As far as I know, Giropay is being replaced by Wero, which is already supported by some banks in different European countries.

It is so far one if the better PayPal/Visa/MasterCard alternatives I‘ve used, but adoption is still a problem.

Annoyingly, we already have fast transactions as part of SEPA. But they're somewhat inconvenient to do and especially not available by just holding your card in front of a sensor.

If we had a harmonized standard for that we could get rid of Visa and MasterCard. And if we had a common web interface to make SEPA transactions more convenient than manually typing an IBAN into a homebanking interface we could get rid of PayPal as well.

Yes, I know services like that exist but I really hate how the current ones expect me to type the login credentials for my homebanking into a third-party website.

How does India and Brazil (PIX) have that but US/EU doesn't?

We need European alternatives to the 2 American duopolies: Visa and Mastercard / Android and Apple.