GNU Taler is supposed to be a solution. Sort of a federated one. If I understand it correctly.
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NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 day agoThat’s where we should look. Why is it hard to be a payment processor.
Because you essentially need a global presence to at all be worth using. That is why it is a joke that NOBODY accepts American Express and only the shadiest of international ATMs accept Discover (saved my ass in Germany back in the 10s though)
You are literally saying that we need to look at why there aren’t more global mega corporations.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I am not particularly familiar with that but it will have an uphill battle. Replacing online transactions is a challenge but is feasible.
Getting to the point that you can pay for food on holiday is a much less feasible one for a purely software project run without the backing of Special Interests.
jadedwench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
As a daily AMEX user, I think I have only run into 1 place that doesn’t take it here in the states. I do remember England being hit or miss at times, but that was over a decade ago. I don’t remember it being much of an issue in Germany either, but I didn’t use AMEX as often at that time.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 day ago
I’m going to be really dumb
Why does a payment processor need to exist?
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I am an artist in OtherCountry. You want to buy art from me. How do you do it?
Physical money? Okay. You now need a way to track that YOU sent 40 bucks in the mail and that I received 40 bucks in the mail and that is (at least) two different national postal services involved. And now I need a way to convert 40 YourLandia dollars into OtherCountry pounds. AND we need to make sure all of that happened quickly enough that exchange rates didn’t meaningfully change
Digital money? Who is running the site? How many different sites do I need to have accounts on to accept payment from all the countries I want to sell to?
At the end of the day: For any transaction that is not face to face transfer of hard currency (and even then but…), you need an intermediary that both parties trust. Payment processors are that intermediary. Sometimes they are the person taking my IOU and turning it into money so that you can give me a hamburger. Sometimes that is effectively a courier making sure your money gets to me no matter where on the planet we are.
wellbudyweek@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
You seem to know a lot of this, in order for your point to click for me, could you explain why some extra payment processor is needed? Would a simple bank transfer not work? If you give me your IBAN, we could let our banks take care of it, right?
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
You DO realize your banks are the payment processors in that case, right? And they are also working through a payment processor to facilitate said transfer (which has almost all the same problems as above).
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 day ago
Hmmm. Something still isn’t clicking in my head.