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I use the probably most mobile payment system... Banknote - Wikipedia[^]
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Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'm waiting for someone to suggest paper currency imprinted with a bar-coded blockchain.
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How about a paper currency imprinted with a bar-coded blockchain?
Happy now? 
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Actually I am . I've been working on a customer problem intermittently since last May, and have probably spent around 200 hours on it. We finally found the root cause last week, and testing on-site yesterday and today have indicated that we've got the problem fixed. It's only with the strictest of mental discipline that I'm not breaking into a naked happy dance ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif) .
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Yay! Sorted! 
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I use Samsung Pay, for the most part it just works. Even when the clerks say their card readers won't work with it.
The one thing I do like about it, is the near instant feed back on transactions. It usually notifies me about a successful transaction before the POS system tells the clerk the tran has been authorized.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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I quite like KERV[^] - not infallible, but great on TfL & Subway (food).
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Yes, I do use Google Pay.
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My phone had NFC, so I decided to give it a try. I've never had any problems with it, and have found it convenient from time to time when I don't have to pull out my wallet and could just use the phone to pay.
But if it went away tomorrow though, it's not something I'd miss, or long for. Some people may find it convenient that it gathers all transactions and displays it in one place, etc. But I know where my money is exactly going; so, I don't need Google to (know it as well, or) display it for me.
Smooth? Yes. Ground-breaking, or even essential? Certainly not.
If you do use it though, keep NFC turned off at all times for obvious reasons except for when you're paying. 
modified 14-Mar-18 18:49pm.
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No and I'm not planning to do so. I don't like when the big corporations directly tap into my bank account. It has something to do with trust. More important, I don't want to lose the touch to my money that I have available. The best system for me to prevent overspending, is to walk up to the ATM and get the money in my hand and into the wallet. Of course I use credit cards but already there I find it difficult to keep the overview sometimes.
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I believe they are associated with your credit card (although I would imagine debit/checking accounts would also be supported).
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No. No. No. No. In case any others come to mind . . . no.
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Apple Pay. Works well, never had any issues. I'm sure Apple is collecting all of my data, but I trust they won't share with anyone else. Apple is known to not "play well with others".
Actually, not a lot of places take any mobile payment system near where I live (small city, Midwest USA); standard credit cards are big here. Now, with the chip system (instead of swiping), checking out takes about 6-8 times as long as before! Progress.
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Thank you. How easy is the check out process? Instead of taking your wallet out, you take your phone out, and follow the prompts?
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I have iPhone 7; it is easier than that. It truly consists of click home button twice to wake phone and put in "wallet" mode, hold iPhone by the reader keeping thumb on home button until it beeps (less than a second). That's it. It works fabulously; incredibly quick; I love it! It just isn't accepted enough places. More continue to accept it, but mobile payments are slow to being adopted here.
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Thank you, that sounds like a really smooth experience.
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I just installed Venmo, a mobile payment system by PayPal that my son and his cohorts use to transfer money to each other. One doesn't apparently need a PayPal account to use it.
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Yes, I've heard of it. It's also notorious for its use as a manufactured spending device in the churning community.
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I use Apple Pay every chance I get. With the Watch, I don't even take the phone out any more.
Faster than punching in a PIN.
I wish Walmart used it.
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... (in part, at least) and one of them is the Tide Pod Challenge.
If you don't know what that is, move along (and think yourself lucky. Don;t bother to google it, it's very, very stupid).
There is a solution however: New design[^]
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Are you sure it's Internet fault? Young idiots did stupid stuff like this way before personal computers entered the households. Urban myths, games of daring and similar stuff always happened, it simply wasn't "news material".
From people smoking plastic to inhaling old style household products (the ones without any kind of CE approval) to jumping down from the first or second floor, parkouring across balconies, climbing over high voltage lines, playing "dodge the train at the last second", stealing from farmers (who often shot them with salt), shooting each other with slingshots, using alcohol bottles as flamethrowers, playing in abandoned and crumbling buildings... And I'm listing only things that my parents did from age 6 to 14, when Internet wasn't even a thing in my country.
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