I’d like to elaborate a bit on this statement: “@GaelDuval suggests using Curve for payment with Murena.” which sounds a bit oversimplistic.
The purpose of the article is to show that despite the Google and Apple monopolies on payments (OK, there was Samsung as well), we now have an alternative to use our smartphones:
- to pay contactless in stores, like you do with a contactless bankcard (NFC)
- to accept card payments (contactless or with insertion+pin) as a merchent
Obviously there are many other ways to make payments, especially online (card numbers, paypal and others, cryptos…), but the contactless payment in stores was only possible, until now and to my knowledge, using either google pay (that doesn’t work yet with /e/OS) or using the very few bank apps that support it. So I was surprised (and pleased) to discover at least one solution (Curve) that makes it possible very easily. (and the others I’ve been reported by some users are not a way to make contacless payments with a smartphone).
Also besing able to accept payments as a merchant with a /e/OS smartphones is notable enough to be noticed.
Also, it’s clear that like many other payments solutions, those are not very privacy-friendly, but this starts with your bank because they know absolutely everything about you. The only privacy-friendly solutions today are cash and some cryptos like Monero (not BTC, not ETH…).
Thanks!