Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Nursie 3987 days ago
It's deprecated in most of the rest of the world now, we've moved on through chip-cards and now contactless cards. The USA is really behind in credit-card tech.

The Coin card was never going to sell outside the USA (not that that's a small market or anything! But even the US is going to move on eventually).
1 comments
jackmaney 3987 days ago
> The USA is really behind in credit-card tech.

It's not so much the USA as it is the American financial sector. Finance moves at a glacial pace.

link
Nursie 3987 days ago
Well, it's the retailers as well from what I know, national chains in the US have comparatively large existing card-reader estates and they're not keen on replacing them all, or retraining staff. Not that these pressures are unique to the USA but they do seem to have taken prevalence over fraud concerns.
link