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Pay "contact-less" with your phone (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi guys,

do you know a good and privacy friendly way to pay with your phone (like Google Pay)? I am using Graphene OS on a Pixel 8 and lice in Germany so some services might not be available here 🙈

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Private payments with a wallet on you phone is something the digital Euro is supposed to offer, if it ever arrives as designed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Private payments and digital Euro is something that does not go hand-in-hand imo. How big of a crypto fan I am, I don't like a state/governement/country/union coin.

Why are they so dodgy about Monero you think? Because of the illicit transactions? Nah.. this is just an extra factor

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The digital euro, as a digital central-bank currency, is the last thing we want from the perspective of privacy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I kinda disagree. Not just for the technical solution that is supposed to enable a fairly good level of privacy but also because I tend to trust ECB employees and ways of working as I've done a few projects with them.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Moreover, personal transaction details of offline digital euro payments would only be known to the payer and the payee, providing a cash-like level of privacy.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/faqs/html/ecb.faq_digital_euro.en.html

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Right.

Because databases are never "hacked" and exfiltrated.

(By hacked, I mean most of the time it's social engineering.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

That just goes for all db.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

GNU Taler

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I believe you meant to say GNU/Taler. \s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

What does a delicious chocolate spread consisting mostly of (now) palm oil and some hazelnuts have to do with this?