HEY GUYS! YOULL NEVER GUESS. Portugal already has such a platform! Even Romania has started using it!

Do it! Canada will come play too.

Everyone and their cousins have their own platform. That's the issue. No one wants to standardize on someone else's alternative so the incumbents reign supreme.

Alipay credit card is wild.

Is a federation of different platforms not possible? Warning: I know absolutely nothing about this.

Visa won't be able to make commercials like this anymore.

The crux is having credit and being able to put blocks on it - say for renting cars.

But I am all for a European alternative. Bring it

It's technically possible, guaranteed.

The problem is capitalism.

China ist not the answer.

This is more going into the direction of feudalism than just capitalism. A million tiny realms and every one keen of keeping their population locked in and uninformed about the outside world. I think there's even a name for it: technofeudalism.

This is the bitch went to poor countries to give debt

Would be spectacular if they make an alternative that does not rely on commercial banks so that having a for-profit bank account isn't required to be able to pay for things electronically. Just like you don't need that with cash. This is something central banks can provide to the citizens of their country. If commercial banks want people's money, they better give an incentive. Currently they get it just so people can access the electronic payment systems.

WERO is coming all over Europe. Germany, France and Belgium are already connected and this year also in the Netherlands. It's happening but ofcourse.... much too slow for many of us

your social credit score will pay for this!

Digital euro is the solution

At least most European banks are happy to cut out the American middlemen (Visa and Mastercard) since they're eating part of the cost, and we already have the infrastructure in place and working, it's called "instant SEPA bank transfer", most newer accounts offer it for free. The problem is the lack of political will to accelerate that indipendence and to stop hemorraging money (roughly 0.5% per transaction!)

Then as people learn to use it they'll hopefully also stop using Paypal (another American company) when sending money to someone, or getting tracked in general every single time they use their debit card.

I can already send money instantly, for free, through SEPA without a singular private company earning a cut or tracking me.

A bank account is needed, but there are thousands to choose from, and in the EU by law they cannot refuse to open a basic account for a private EU citizen.

Why should we use Wero/Revolut/Venmo/whatever instead? Intercompatibility within just one network means another network effect, that does not look like a long term solution to me. Just like Telegram, though very convenient to use with a nice UI, is no solution to Whatsapp.

Wero seems to be solving the problem of copy-pasting our IBAN. What if any bank app would just recognise a standardised QR code with that data? Who would then subscribe to Wero with a phone number and email and risk getting scammed or blocked for any random reason?

It was bound to happen eventually.

innovative

You spell "resume-based design" funny