Comment by numpad0
1 year ago
Why does this question always come up? There's zero technical reasons you can't electronically pay with all-open software stack e.g. Ethereum on GNU/Linux, it's pure matter of trust.
With currently available payment standards, it's like asking for a live credit card with someone else's private key and an open debug port, all at the same time. Things don't work that way.
What kind of reply is this? None of the people I want to give money will take Ethereum.
Then what makes you think the same people will let you insert a bomb-looking thing with wires sticking out into a credit card terminal?
Who said anything about sticking anything into credit card terminals? And I'm not seeing any wires sticking out of the phone. I'd say it doesn't particularly look like a bomb either, but given recent events, that probably doesn't say much.
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> Why does this question always come up?
Because that's the only question that matters. I have just a few apps installed, some of them are easily replaced, like TOTP apps, others are impossible to replace and without them I might as well get a feature phone.
I'm down to one app that I really do need, MobilePay, but it's a payment app, heavily controlled by the banks. That is not going to be installable on CalyxOS or anything without either Apples AppStore or the Google Play Store.
Phones doesn't matter, they are mostly the same, the operating systems are interesting, but without a widely supported app store, it does not matter, the phone will be useless for the majority of people. More and more people are using their phone as their only computing device, they need to have access to banking apps, mobile payment solution and government application, none of those are not going to exist on some random Linux phone.
Then the question should be "which bank is backing this ROM", not "is app A for bank B work on this ROM".
The answer to the latter is and will continue to be an instant negative for quite a while, and it's pointless question to make other than as a really indirect nudging for big bank(lol).