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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Please let's think this ALL THE WAY: it is pointless to look for alternatives to the customer facing part if the backend still runs on US software.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes it'd s called GNU-Taler, Chief

Try it, you might just like it ;-)

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I really like the concept of Taler.And I hope it goes somewhere.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

The EU plans this for many year, but the problem is every country is doing its own thing with its own standard, that is not working anywhere else. In Germany for example we have Giropay as a solution, which doesn't work in other countries. As it turns out, people move though, that's why for a couple of years now every bank is switching to VISA debit cards...

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 Iโ€˜ve used, but adoption is still a problem.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

We're so capable, it's crazy we needed to be threatened to realize it.

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