Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026

Post by daneel_w » Fri, Oct 03, 2025, 11:15 PM UTC

renhanxue wrote: post #152

daneel_w wrote: post #50

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> "It's usually not said out loud, but cash is often considered to be dirty and criminal ..." Are you sure this isn't impression you've gotten from isolated reactions involving a small number of individuals, perhaps just a single individual? I can't relate to the sentiment at all, having lived here for just over three decades and experiencing the popularity shift from cash to debit card. I can, in fact, not recall a…

I'm Swedish and if someone insists on doing a transaction using cash when Swish or card is available, I'd immediately start to wonder if it's for some kind of more or less shady reason, probably tax evasion at the very least.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 03, 2025, 11:18 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #18

mrtksn wrote: post #9

It's not about paying by cash but paying by card offline. How is this going to be implemented I wonder. On planes they often accept credit cards even when there's no internet. I assume this is a trust in-credit-based system because they don't accept debit cards, i.e. if you are worth being trusted with a card you can have your sandwich now and we will take care of the bank processing once we are on the ground. So may…

Exactly like that most likely, I am old enough to remember those machines where credit cards left their mark on the receipt, that is why their numbers are higher than the card. Here, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_imprinter

Post by lostlogin » Fri, Oct 03, 2025, 11:20 PM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #139

recursive wrote: post #131

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Not really your point, but this sounds crazy. > My company requires me to send it a check for the amount I receive from the government for jury duty That just sounds like something that shouldn't be allowed. I don't know the rules.

Some states permit it, some do not. My company claims that allowing me to have both my regular pay and the government pay would be considered an over-payment, and the accountants say it triggers all kinds of messy things. However, at the same time, it is illegal to do this in some American states where we have offices. So it must somehow be possible for the accountants to allow it.

Post by dhosek » Fri, Oct 03, 2025, 11:21 PM UTC

keanb wrote: post #105

dijit wrote: post #97

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I come from the UK where not accepting cash is only ok in hipster areas of London (or, was at the time). When I joined my gamedev studio I had colleagues asking me why I had cash, and many of them didn’t even recognise what it looked like (there was a switchover of the notes a year or two prior). There was an insinuation that I would use it for drugs. So, I suspect that the parent is right here.

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Post by yieldcrv » Fri, Oct 03, 2025, 11:22 PM UTC

samus wrote: post #33

yieldcrv wrote: post #3

offline key signing and broadcasting later should be a simple thing although heavily misunderstood, this is built into cryptocurrencies since day 1 (many critics have long thought crypto requires power and internet access, many proponents also don't know otherwise) with card networks learning from competition and functionally being public-only keys, this should be even simpler to implement

Card networks have supported this mode of operation for a long time.