fascinating, how did they get the support. most hardeware owners dont like you modding their shit. thats why walletmore broke in the uk. breach of terms of service.
It’s Fidesmo but only payment… maybe NFC sharing. The chip is infineon and doesn’t support hardly any crypto algorithms so fun apps won’t work.
It shows up as “DT Club” on your bank statement. And implant purchases are payments to “DT LLC” IIRC.
Gosh, I’d love to be able to pay for stuff without having to deal with the banking nonsense. My local bank consideres Aliexpress as a high risk online vendor for example…
By the IRS or by the banks? The KYC AML stuff can get significantly worse than the IRS if you’re not careful… And crypto can trigger a whole bunch of things that you don’t want to deal with.
Had to buy a plane ticket for a friend because the bank decided to protect him from using his own money. They didn’t even bother to verify, just assumed fraudulent activity and shut down his card until the next business day. Sometimes I wonder how our economy even functions with financial institutions what they are.
Indeed it almost was. I think my answer is: by feeding off the fat that remains from when we used to have a real economy. And the mega-corporations and governments are parasites that feed off of the wealth generated by the real market beneath them. The economy of makers is overshadowed by an economy of takers. (But still we make, and in the shadows of concrete towers our little market tents trade the gold that needn’t glitter.)
It would certainly function a lot better if, at very least, the flow of our money weren’t clogged up in duct-punk bureaucratic nonsense.