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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

yeah I'll start bartering right now

[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Ummmm.

ACH is how you get your paycheck, and it's being updated to FedNow.

Zelle is an independent network as well.

And of course, there is Discover and AmEx.

There is also cash, check, money order. They still work today, just people largely forgot how to use them.

IIRC some Brazilian network was getting very popular off of this. If you want to look at non-US options.

There are plenty of competitors to Visa/Mastercard/Paypal.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

can i ~~offer~~ trade you a nice egg in this trying time?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

eggs are about $0.28 right now that's 0.0000024 BTC which is ~ 239 sats + another 200 or so for transaction fees.

I really didn't want to go bitcoin, but it's likely the only reasonable competition we can put up against stuff the size of Visa.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I WAS going to follow-up my "it's always sunny in philadelphia" quote but I got completely distracted by TWENTY-EIGHT CENT EGGS. I can literally buy eggs from the source (there's a farm nearby that "donates" a portion of their income directly to the chickens and puts it into quality of life upgrades for them) and it still costs me $4.50-5.00 a dozen depending on weight.