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by mechanical_fish 5349 days ago
Holy cow, Square is going to have all the pieces to build the ultimate restaurant-bill-splitting application of our dreams.

Card Case doesn't happen to have an API, does it? ;)

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Do people really dream of such a thing? Some at PayPal thought bill-splitting would amount to something which was of course foolish.

The difficulty and hence lucrativeness of financial transactions depends on size, distance and familiarity. A large transaction across the world between two strangers is the riskiest/hardest/most expensive. A small transaction face-to-face amongst friends is the opposite.