Credit card company Visa is calling for a ban on the surcharge fee some merchants charge card-paying consumers at the point of sale.
The Commerce Commission was undertaking a review of card charges, and considering cutting the regulated interchange fee card companies can charge banks by as much as 75 percent, for example.
Card interchange fees were in turn passed on by banks to merchants at whatever rate the merchant can negotiate, meaning that some pay much more than others.
Hey I have an idea. Why don’t we invite some competition to the marketplace. Maybe Alipay or Wechat. Even better why don’t we start using premined crypto coins. Even better why doesn’t the government mint it’s own premined crypto and set up some servers to handle the transactions.
The mere threat of any of the above should get Visa to back off.
Fuck off with the crypto.
Yeah. Bro had me until the crypto shill.
It’s just technology. It’s just a kind of a database. There is no reason the government can’t create it’s own currency and run it’s own transaction servers. It’s all open source so it could literally be done in a week if we really want to.
They could do it but there be no benefit and huge costs.
Cost would be minimal and the benefit would be very low transaction costs for vendors and customers and not needing Visa to conduct every day financial transactions.
Its a very poor, and overtime increasingly inefficient database.
Not for premined crypto coins. For them you don’t need proof of work.