Berliners will soon have to pay fees and other payments to the administration via the payment system Wero. This was decided by the digital committee of the House of Representatives, according to a report by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB).

Wero – a combination of We and Euro – is a digital payment service that allows money to be transferred by providing a mobile phone number or an email address. It is intended to be positioned against US payment services such as Paypal.

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  • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    I’d prefer it if there was a useless pseudocurrency that burns 10 trees for every 0.1 point of it of the EU.

    Fixed that for you.

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      2 days ago

      There would be the mining if the currency is the Euro. Can’t have people making Euros, it would destabilize the currency. So no mining, so different model, with different processing requirements.

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          1 day ago

          It will be just cash, digitally. No wild value swings or mad mining rush. Money should be boring.

          Part of how you keep it like that is you control the supply. Plus with an existing currency, no need to convince anyone anything. Normies go cross eyed when you explain value is all just belief. Economists get that, but they also get the need to be able to stabilize your currency. The belief in that control is as stabilizing as the control of supply of currency.

          I just want currency in digital form that is secure and open source. We know how to do that. Have for a while now. Just take a while more to do it.

          Death to systems like WorldPay.

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              1 day ago

              The problem you have with it is really the mining. Not the distributed block chain ledger.

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                  16 hours ago

                  You can do blockchain without mining. You can do distributed blockchain without mining, just not in the same manner. And it can be cheaper than bitcoin mining, for example proof of stake.