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		mountainofdeath on June 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google shuts down GPay app and P2P payments in the... When I was in China, the government issued an edict that basically said "merchants of a certain size must accept AliPay/WeChat Pay/UnionPay CloudPay universally". All of the above are almost identical "Scan my QR code" to pay. It would be nice to have such an edict, forcing compatibility outside of the ACH system but it will never happen.

baxtr on June 11, 2024 [–]

Ah yes great idea. Let’s also copy other mandatory “edicts” invented in China. They had a couple of great ideas in the past years.

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