You’re right, but they are working on it. You cannot build an alternative for VISA/Mastercard just in one day. Step-by-step we’ll get there. Every country has his own system, every bank has his own system. The only thing they have in common is VISA/Mastercard. It will take a few years, but the US has started something that is not gonna stop very soon. April 2, 2025 is the day that Europe started to disconnect from US dominance.
Ik zit bij KBC bank en daar zit WERO reeds embedded in de online betaalopties. Indien ik iets moet betalen via QR-code maakt het voor mij niks uit of dat via KBC, Payconiq of Wero is. De betaling gebeurt automatisch zonder dat ik mij dus iets van diverse platformen moet aantrekken. Bij andere BEL grootbanken is dat idem.
I just learned that Eutelsat is also (still) working for Russian TV stations to stream/broadcast their programs. Do you think it’s a good idea to work with an European company who has no moral compass and says it’s OK with Putin?
Ooooh F*. I just bought stocks of Eutelsat a few weeks ago. Didn’t knew they were working for RUS too.
WERO is coming all over Europe. Germany, France and Belgium are already connected and this year also in the Netherlands. It’s happening but ofcourse… much too slow for many of us :-) www.wero-wallet.eu If they realy want to be innovative they should use blockchain technology to make it happen.
IMO it’s mind blowing to see how many Europeans are now discovering alternative EU or OpenSource solutions for IT services that were imbedded in our lives for so many years. Linux is booming, Proton.me is one of the biggest competitors for the Google eco-system, alternative browsers like Vivaldi are sky rocketing, Signal, BlueSky, Mastodon and Substack. I had never heard of that 1 year ago and now I have no more Facebook, Instagram or Whatsapp. Also many… many european businesses are moving their cloud drives to EU cloud services. This is only the beginning.
Het komt eraan. In BEL reeds actief. In 2025 is NL aan de beurt.
We’ll see. I believe in the blockchain technology, but not in the way it is used as today. IMO it’s like the early days of the internet. Only for the nerds, until they started to build RWA. But again… we’ll see.