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Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
(europeanbusinessmagazine.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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They accept cash.
Great if you don't mind a wallet overflowing with loose change.
Crazy that we don't have a public sector payment processor, though. You'd think we could have a Generic Card tied to a public bank that handles electronic payments efficiently. But it's been over 40 years since we began consumer grade electronic transactions and its still entirely within the scope of the private sector.
You want trump in control of our commercial transactions?
Brazil has a payment system (called Pix, IIRC) that seems to work well, and has survived some... questionable leadership.
I don't know much about it (maybe a Brazilian can say more about it), but it seems to serve the businesses very well there.