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on June 26, 2017
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Ask HN: Why are credit card chip readers so slow?
I recently helped a shop connect their terminal to the wired connection instead of the POTS one. The time it takes for a payment to go through went from 25 seconds to 2 seconds :) Also they used to pay a few cents for each transaction...
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