[throwaway3975]

The Bloomberg article that The Verge is referencing says that WhatsApp plans to implement PIX: https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-06-23/brazi...

[kawera]

Good. Then they can deploy their solution using a protocol available to all and not a closed platform made to lock the market. We've had enough of that, didn't we?

[Lt_Riza_Hawkeye]

WhatsApp was always planning on implementing PIX. But PIX won't be available for at least another six months - so they went with the current system instead while they waited.

[dang]

We've changed the URL to that from https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/24/21301470/whatsapp-payment.... This is the third or fourth theverge.com submission we've had to do that for in the last couple days.

[darwinwhy]

To be fair to the OP, they probably don't have a Bloomberg subscription.