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melting_snowtoday at 8:41 AM3 repliesview on HN

> but because it can give ideas to other countries doing the same

This is happening right now in Europe. You have systems like Blik, Twint, Swish etc.

I know that at least Blik is working on making it possible for international payments.


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alexaholictoday at 8:50 AM

> I know that at least Blik is working on making it possible for international payments

International transfers between MB Way (PT) and Bizum (ES) are working e.g. via phone number. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Payments_Alliance

ginkotoday at 8:52 AM

What's needed in Europe is federation of the existing systems, not one winner taking it all.

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kakaciktoday at 11:46 AM

Twint is in Switzerland for more than 10 years, hardly a new idea