I had to transfer an Rx to a new pharmacy (Rite Aid is gone from our town), and the only other option is a “wellness” store. Never mind, they could get what I needed.
At checkout, I used my phone and the clerk told me, “there’s a surcharge for that, but soon we’ll have a pharmacy bitcoin, with no surcharge.”
Here ya go—I don’t know enough to comment—does anyone else know about this?
https://www.b2bnn.com/2025/08/wellgistics-launches-crypto-payments-in-6500-pharmacies-in-the-us/
If you are using a Visa credit card, the surcharge must be no more than 3%. If you are using a Visa debit card, they aren't allowed to surcharge at all. MasterCard may have similar rules.
https://merchantcostconsulting.com/lower-credit-card-processing-fees/visa-surcharging-rules/
Oh, I'm sure it's good for someone. Just not customers!
@grammasaurus "pharmacy bitcoin" doesn't make any sense... but a company scrip style stablecoin is a thing that's very much in vogue right now among some of america's dumber CEOs so i would guess it's probably more along those lines?
the amazing thing is that because of all the fake polls and data pushed in the media by crypto bros for the election a lot of people think there's actually demand for this kind of thing when the reality is that no one wants this. even el salvador, the most crypto friendly country in the world, sees significantly less than 1% of remittances and payments done with crypto after years of pushing the idea.
@grammasaurus update: i actually looked at this and it turns out it's using Ripple (XRP) whose CEO Brad Garlinghouse was one of trump's biggest donors (and one of the biggest overall donors in the 2024 election)
ripple launched a stablecoin #RLUSD recently so that's almost certainly what's going on here. (they also applied for a bank charter a week or two ago, which should terrify you)
i've posted a number of things about ripple over the past few years, search "from:[email protected] xrp" if you're curious.
@cryptadamist yikes!
thanks for the info
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