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For many, many years I have had a John Lewis MasterCard. It gives cash back in John Lewis vouchers and is our preferred card for household spend. For what seems like the last century, when I sit down to check the credit card bills once per month I have paid    So, I logged inContinue reading “This is why people hate banks”

It’s an old meme on this blog, but I think it is essentially true that the Big Brother of Orwellian nightmare isn’t really the government, who do their best to spy on us all the time in order to track down people who post abusive tweets and such like, but us. We are Big Brother.Continue reading “POST Lights, camera, inaction”

xxx The blockchain does not solve this problem. It records a decision, but it does not record the circumstances. From Distributed proof of jerk – Medium xxx

xxx I’ve talked before about how privacy is not a “thing,” it’s a tradeoff. From Privacy Is About Tradeoffs… And Things Go Wrong When Those Tradeoffs Are Not Clear | Techdirt xxx xxx a big problem is that the tradeoffs aren’t as clear or as explicit as they should be. From Privacy Is About Tradeoffs… AndContinue reading “Privacy Is About Tradeoffs… And Things Go Wrong When Those Tradeoffs Are Not Clear | Techdirt”

xxx In an interview with Nikkei news agency, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company intends to use its products – Apple Pay, iPhone, and Apple Watch – to become “a catalyst for taking cash out of the system.” “We don’t think the consumer particularly likes cash,” he said. Cook also said From Apple PromotesContinue reading “Apple Promotes A Cashless Society In Japan (AAPL, SNE) | Investopedia”

xxx “We would like to be a catalyst for taking cash out of the system,” Cook said. “We don’t think the consumer particularly likes cash.” From Apple’s Next Goal: Killing Paper Money Once and For All xxx

xxx Chris Grayling said by the end of 2018 everyone should be able to travel with a ‘flick of a card’ or the ‘touch of a mobile phone’. He said passengers should never have to queue again for a ticket, and should be able to buy them from the comfort of their home or whileContinue reading “Transport Secretary says passengers should be able to pay with a ‘flick of a card’ | Daily Mail Online”

xxx Criminals blew up 492 cash machines across Europe in the first half of 2016, an 80% increase on the same period the previous year, according to figures from the European ATM Security Team (East). Most of the attacks used gas, although 110 involved solid explosives, says East, with hits causing an average loss ofContinue reading “Surge in explosive attacks on European ATMs”

xxx As of today Seqr customers in the UK are now able to quickly and simply link their bank account to the Seqr app and make payments directly from their bank account. From Seqr launches contactless payments service in the UK xxx

snippet Speaking of the direction where the disruption will come from, Yermack sees three potential players. These include challengers (complete outsiders looking for disruption); collaborators (like Overstock and R3); and regulators (countries like the UK, Australia, and Canada). He was optimistic that regulators might be the most active agents of change, even going so far asContinue reading “| Could Bitcoin Be the Future of Blockchain Post Trade?”