alt Hacker NewsPeople have been suggesting a micro payment system for the web for over a quarter century
https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-Micropayment-Markup-19990825/
Why would you want to use a terminal for mass transit instead of your phone?
People have been suggesting a micro payment system for the web for over a quarter century
https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-Micropayment-Markup-19990825/
Why would you want to use a terminal for mass transit instead of your phone?
I prefer dumb phones, and then prefer to not have to carry one 24/7. Device lock-in is a whole other discussion. Why can't phones be switched off anyhow in terms of telco signal? Yet their Wifi and Bluetooth can be. Weird. What are they doing in stealth?
Look how cheap x402 transactions are (ie almost free) https://gemini.google.com/share/cbf1adb1570c It's a new thing - have business models adapted accordingly?