โฒ 849 โผ Chief of Dutch Central Bank: US influence on payment systems is concerning, working on alternatives for Visa and Mastercard. (nos.nl) submitted 1 year ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk 139 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[โ] owsei@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) How does India and Brazil (PIX) have that but US/EU doesn't? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] embed_me@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago To me, it is a bastard child who turned out noble. In India, the government a few years back had announced overnight invalidity of the highest two denominations of cash notes, in an ill-informed attempt to "eliminate black money". The alternative note to replace the two, was of even a higher denomination and often in scarcity due to the sudden and unplanned decision. (ATMs were malfunctioning due to the different size of the note). It was a chaotic time and many daily-wage earners, and other vulnerable groups, the economy as a whole suffered. These events indirectly led to a very good technological infrastructure, but I will always believe that the price included some of our blood. (It didn't have to be) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetisation permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] embed_me@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago To me, it is a bastard child who turned out noble. In India, the government a few years back had announced overnight invalidity of the highest two denominations of cash notes, in an ill-informed attempt to "eliminate black money". The alternative note to replace the two, was of even a higher denomination and often in scarcity due to the sudden and unplanned decision. (ATMs were malfunctioning due to the different size of the note). It was a chaotic time and many daily-wage earners, and other vulnerable groups, the economy as a whole suffered. These events indirectly led to a very good technological infrastructure, but I will always believe that the price included some of our blood. (It didn't have to be) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetisation permalink fedilink source parent