If in the EU. Try WERO and tell your bank how to make it better if you truly care about an alternative to PayPal and the Visa/Master duopoly.
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If in the EU. Try WERO and tell your bank how to make it better if you truly care about an alternative to PayPal and the Visa/Master duopoly. Don’t expect the perfect solution. Understand that alternatives are never better or perfect from the get-go but that we need to tell them through using them how to become better and better. Be a pioneer, not a follower
Wero - Digital payment wallet
Experience fast and secure digital payments with Wero’s wallet, enabling you to send and receive money between bank accounts in under 10 seconds.
(wero-wallet.eu)
@jwildeboer Can someone help me understand why we need this given we have a fully functioning SEPA payment system? Arent these apps really only relevant in the US because their payement systems are so fragmented? -
@panda4x4 keep on asking.
@jwildeboer Indeed, we already have a national system, but we're en route
https://epicompany.eu/media-insights/europa-and-epi-launch-collaboration-to-expand-sovereign-pan-european-payments -
"But I have Bizum and it's so good" -> It joins Wero https://epicompany.eu/media-insights/europa-and-epi-launch-collaboration-to-expand-sovereign-pan-european-payments
"But I have iDeal and it's so good" -> It joins Wero https://ideal.nl/en/naar-wero
"My bank doesn't support it" -> Other banks do, switch, maybe?
Yes and in Belgium most people have Payconiq and they are also joining Wero. 🥳
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@mc Tell them. PayPal and Visa/Master aren’t better in that regard. Change through use beats criticising from the sidelines.
@jwildeboer @mc like this?
candy in the wind (@kjempeslu@climatejustice.social)
Hab mir jetzt angewöhnt, Unternehmen, bei denen ich bestellt habe oder hätte, via Kontaktformular daran zu erinnern, dass es neben Paypal (Datenkrake! buuuuh), US-Amerikanische Kreditfirmen (bäääääh) und Kauf auf Rechnung (aber erst nach Schufa-Auskunft) noch andere Zahlungsmöglichkeiten gibt. WERO und Lastschrift zum Beispiel. #diday
Climate Justice Social (climatejustice.social)
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@jwildeboer I have transformed my daughter and partner already. I was even able to pay my barber last time. It starts slow, but it starts.
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@kjempeslu exakt so
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@jeroen Switzerland isn't EU member, so they will always have their own thing that I can't use when visiting there. But cash still works
You did note how I started this thread with "If in the EU. Try WERO ..."?@jwildeboer @jeroen Switzerland is part of the SEPA schema, so I can imagine that one day Twint will join this too. After all, all the QR codes do is tell you where to send money to. Its all software, and software is flexible...
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If in the EU. Try WERO and tell your bank how to make it better if you truly care about an alternative to PayPal and the Visa/Master duopoly. Don’t expect the perfect solution. Understand that alternatives are never better or perfect from the get-go but that we need to tell them through using them how to become better and better. Be a pioneer, not a follower
Wero - Digital payment wallet
Experience fast and secure digital payments with Wero’s wallet, enabling you to send and receive money between bank accounts in under 10 seconds.
(wero-wallet.eu)
@jwildeboer Mit Ing Konto super einfach zu aktivieren
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If in the EU. Try WERO and tell your bank how to make it better if you truly care about an alternative to PayPal and the Visa/Master duopoly. Don’t expect the perfect solution. Understand that alternatives are never better or perfect from the get-go but that we need to tell them through using them how to become better and better. Be a pioneer, not a follower
Wero - Digital payment wallet
Experience fast and secure digital payments with Wero’s wallet, enabling you to send and receive money between bank accounts in under 10 seconds.
(wero-wallet.eu)
@jwildeboer Had Payconiq before, which is now replaced by Wero. Works just as well, but now also outside of Belgium. Excellent!
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@farshidhakimy … that uses a privacy preserving hash based on mail/phone to find … /pedantic @mattb
@farshidhakimy @mattb @jwildeboer ... Which still has the effect that anybody who knows (or enumerates) your phone number gets your full legal name from your bank; no transaction or interaction from you necessary, not even a notification will happen.
I recommend using Wero, but please don't use your phone number for that, unless you consider it public.
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@farshidhakimy @mattb @jwildeboer ... Which still has the effect that anybody who knows (or enumerates) your phone number gets your full legal name from your bank; no transaction or interaction from you necessary, not even a notification will happen.
I recommend using Wero, but please don't use your phone number for that, unless you consider it public.
@ysegrim For a better privacy-preserving method of exchanging money between two people in physical proximity, I use cash
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If in the EU. Try WERO and tell your bank how to make it better if you truly care about an alternative to PayPal and the Visa/Master duopoly. Don’t expect the perfect solution. Understand that alternatives are never better or perfect from the get-go but that we need to tell them through using them how to become better and better. Be a pioneer, not a follower
Wero - Digital payment wallet
Experience fast and secure digital payments with Wero’s wallet, enabling you to send and receive money between bank accounts in under 10 seconds.
(wero-wallet.eu)
@jwildeboer #wero is like the #twint for Euros? I think there is a real need for it in the EU. Twint is a very important payment service in Switzerland, let's hope wero can be the same for countries with Euro
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@jwildeboer #wero is like the #twint for Euros? I think there is a real need for it in the EU. Twint is a very important payment service in Switzerland, let's hope wero can be the same for countries with Euro
@kelvan It is a bit more. First we had the SEPA system to make transfers across many EU countries easy (and free). Then we added direct and real-time A2A (Account to Account) transfers (also for free) and now Wero as the top layer for simplicity. Soon PoS (Point of Sale) systems will join and online stores will also be ablate use (rollout has started). All of this without the need for a middle man and under EU data protection rules.
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If in the EU. Try WERO and tell your bank how to make it better if you truly care about an alternative to PayPal and the Visa/Master duopoly. Don’t expect the perfect solution. Understand that alternatives are never better or perfect from the get-go but that we need to tell them through using them how to become better and better. Be a pioneer, not a follower
Wero - Digital payment wallet
Experience fast and secure digital payments with Wero’s wallet, enabling you to send and receive money between bank accounts in under 10 seconds.
(wero-wallet.eu)
@jwildeboer fuck this, no way am I going to use a service that depends on a phone number
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If in the EU. Try WERO and tell your bank how to make it better if you truly care about an alternative to PayPal and the Visa/Master duopoly. Don’t expect the perfect solution. Understand that alternatives are never better or perfect from the get-go but that we need to tell them through using them how to become better and better. Be a pioneer, not a follower
Wero - Digital payment wallet
Experience fast and secure digital payments with Wero’s wallet, enabling you to send and receive money between bank accounts in under 10 seconds.
(wero-wallet.eu)
@jwildeboer manwhile EU: Belgium, Germany, Netherlands. The next country, I guess, would be Singapore. /s
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@jwildeboer fuck this, no way am I going to use a service that depends on a phone number
@mirabilos @jwildeboer it doesn't depend on a phone number
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@ysegrim For a better privacy-preserving method of exchanging money between two people in physical proximity, I use cash
@farshidhakimy @mattb@farshidhakimy @mattb @jwildeboer The thing is: Wero spills your legal name to anyone who has your phone number without needing physical proximity or an exchange of money. Tested between two different banks, with the other person far away.
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@kelvan It is a bit more. First we had the SEPA system to make transfers across many EU countries easy (and free). Then we added direct and real-time A2A (Account to Account) transfers (also for free) and now Wero as the top layer for simplicity. Soon PoS (Point of Sale) systems will join and online stores will also be ablate use (rollout has started). All of this without the need for a middle man and under EU data protection rules.
@jwildeboer so how it is more than twint? I have twint from my bank and am able to send instantly to other people, pay my Galaxus order, pay my parking ticket, pay my cheese at a local cheese market by scanning a QR code.
Switzerland is also (partly) part of SEPA, I can send euros for free to another country, something that does not work the other way around because my Austrian bank has a huge fee for sepa transactions to Switzerland
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@farshidhakimy @mattb @jwildeboer The thing is: Wero spills your legal name to anyone who has your phone number without needing physical proximity or an exchange of money. Tested between two different banks, with the other person far away.
@ysegrim And if you don't like that, don't use Wero. Fine with me. I accept this knowingly as you can also see from my account name. @farshidhakimy @mattb
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@jwildeboer so how it is more than twint? I have twint from my bank and am able to send instantly to other people, pay my Galaxus order, pay my parking ticket, pay my cheese at a local cheese market by scanning a QR code.
Switzerland is also (partly) part of SEPA, I can send euros for free to another country, something that does not work the other way around because my Austrian bank has a huge fee for sepa transactions to Switzerland@kelvan It spans a lot of countries. Same app, same codes, no national borders. And Twint is exploring joining Wero in the future.
