The Linux Foundation getting in bed with Coinbase to develop a web payments standard.
No thanks very much
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3No wait, it's worse than you thought!
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
@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
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