The Linux Foundation getting in bed with Coinbase to develop a web payments standard.
No thanks very much
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Membership [of the x402 governing body] will be comprised of participants from multiple verticals with initial intent and support being expressed by Adyen, Amazon Web Services, American Express, Ampersend.ai, Base, Circle, Cloudflare, Coinbase, Fiserv Merchant Solutions, Google, KakaoPay, Mastercard, Merit Systems, Microsoft, Polygon Labs, PPRO, Shopify, Sierra, Solana Foundation, Stripe, thirdweb, and Visa.
This is a list of people I don't want in charge of my money. And yes, I am forced to use some of them. Doesn't mean I trust them.
@mttaggart yeah but we kind of need their services if you want to build a seamless payment system on the Internet so we can pay for content instead of being spied on for as revenue
Hating on this just further entrenches the status quo
Hating on this just further entrenches the status quo
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9@feld I do not think letting the payment processors govern the standard could be anything but status quo
@mttaggart call me when the W3C owns a bank
@feld Do you get the difference between being a service provider and standards maintainer? Do you get why you want a firewall between them? And why, for financial material, that firewall is extra important?
@mttaggart Do you get that the W3C has had 30 years to broach this problem and have done nothing? And they have no expertise in designing a payments system?
What's the last major thing we let the W3C build for us, ActivityPub? This terribly underspecified piece of shit of a protocol?
What's the last major thing we let the W3C build for us, ActivityPub? This terribly underspecified piece of shit of a protocol?
@feld I'm afraid your timing could not have been worse to go after the W3C on this point.
https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/
We shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of the good; that's true. We also shouldn't accept the worst possible version of a solution. There's a balance there, and letting payment processors govern the standard just ain't it.
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> google, apple, facebook, and microsoft editors
yeah that's a huge improvement, those companies are historically on the good side of "not spying on users", right?
> google, apple, facebook, and microsoft editors
yeah that's a huge improvement, those companies are historically on the good side of "not spying on users", right?
@feld You're moving some goalposts here. The original issue was about payment processors governing the standard. That is not the case here. That is an improvement.
@feld @mttaggart This looks like something from the 1990s. We were supposed to be able to read articles for a nickel or whatever, without signing up or revealing information.
Given that Chaum's patent is expired, why is that still hard? It's basic RSA with an additional random factor.
The problem is they will still push ads and spy even if we do pay. Does paying for a movie let you avoid commercials? No, they have increased it.
Pirating a movie avoids commercials.
@feld @mttaggart the problem is some of those companies are extremely shady, most of them arguably. I don't want anything to do with anything they would make. We're already being censored by big credit card and there they are