Eugen Rochko"PSA: If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it now." https://medium.com/@iDemonix/paypal-is-still-one-of-the-worst-online-examples-of-customer-service-42f3c13f6cd0
I mean, too bad PayPal is like the only way to do business online using a bank account without a credit card
[MOVED] Christopher Webber@Gargron Yeah, too bad. Bitcoin definitely won't be it, but I hope we keep seeing experimentation with cryptocurrency, so that eventually we do have an internet-monies-for-the-people that has characteristics which are usable for everyday humans.
Masoud Abkenar
Stefanie Schulte@masoud @Gargron @cwebber GNU Taler is an interesting project! By the way, I interviewed GNU Taler developer Christian Grothoff a while ago. The interview was published by my employer, an association of cooperative banks and other cooperatives (unfortunately, the interview is only available in German): https://www.rwgv.de/newsroom/aus-den-fachbereichen/banken-online-zahlungen-kuenftig-open-source/
@stefanieschulte @masoud @Gargron GNU Taler is interesting. I haven't gotten to try it yet but it sounds promising.
I'm also keeping an eye on the Stellar consensus protocol (*very* interesting stuff... federated consensus!) and what the company Digital Bazaar is doing (full disclosure in that I contract with them, but not on this currently) on Web Payments stuff (Linked Data Signatures for web payment stuff basically). Reasons for optimism!
Abbie Normal@cwebber @stefanieschulte @masoud @Gargron
wow !
I didn't know about Linked data Signatures and I didn't know about Stellar !
@cwebber @Gargron @masoud Here is a set of slides about the GNU Taler project (in English), from a talk Christian Grothoff gave in Düsseldorf: http://grothoff.org/christian/fsfe2016.pdf