Direct bank transfers. Those are a thing.
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BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 6 days agoYou kinda need a payment processor unless you want people to start mailing cash in the post.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
superniceperson@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
That’s still a payment processor; just now you’ve completely deanonimized both parties.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
What is this? Mafia? If you have my account number that is it. You can send me money but you can’t get anything out of it.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Widely sharing your bank details isn’t usually considered a great idea.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
My bank number account is a string of numbers. Besides the country and bank entity code, no other information can be obtained and no movements can be ordered on it by a non titular.
Money can be transfered in but the account can’t be moved by anyone but the titular.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 6 days ago
You’d be happy to post it on Lemmy with any required routing information?
morrowind@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Before people ruined it this was one of the ideas behind crypto
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
I hate so much everytime I remember what cryptocurrency was supposed to be and what has become.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 5 days ago
For a little while I bought coffee and strawberries with Bitcoin back more than 9ish years ago. It was pretty cool easy with the first apps.
Worked well.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 6 days ago
If nothing else it’s a bit of a faff. But again you’d need someone to convert it to fiat for it to be useful in every day life, which isn’t super removed from a payment processor. It’s pretty much difficult to get away from a middleman somewhere.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
The idea is it becomes the fiat