Europe

Yes please! And not a minute too soon...

EMVCo is one of the most vile, most egregious cartels in the history of humanity. Basically, they hold everybody's balls in their hands and there's nothing anybody can do against them. If you have a business and they don't like your business, they'll cut you off the payment network and they'll kill your business. Just like that. Without court order or any form of legal process. It's happened many times, with PornHub and WikiLeaks for example, and somehow those gangsters are still allowed to operate worldwide.

Fuck Mastercard, fuck Visa and Fuck Amex with a stiff wire brush.

In Switzerland there is a service called Twint, basically an app to send money to a phone number or to scan a qr code to pay. It is very popular at farmer's markets, but also works on any payment terminal, since the terminal shows a qr code on the small display. The money can be charged to a card if you want, but also directly withdrawn from your bank account. So in this last version, Twint allows to pay electronically without using Mastercard or visa. I have always wondered why such a system was able to arise in small Switzerland and there is nothing similar in any other European country as far as I know.

Yeah, this greedy fuck wants to be the new head and give more debt to struggling countries.

She’s a POS.