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(NekoSock) Miya Ironami (iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 06:12:37 JST (NekoSock) Miya Ironami

Kudos to Visa

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  SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 06:12:36 JST SuperDicq
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  @iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be You live in the Netherlands now. This is Maestro country, GTFO with your Visa back to France.
  
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  SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 06:20:13 JST SuperDicq
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  @iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be France actually still has their own national payment network? Not gonna lie that's actually pretty cool.
  
  The Netherlands used to have PIN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIN_(debit_card)) but it got replaced with Maestro in 2012. This brand is also the reason why we still use "pinnen" as a verb for using your card to pay with something.
  
  I wish our payment system wasn't in the hand of foreign companies.
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    PIN (debit card)
    
    PIN was a debit card brand in the Netherlands from 1990 until 2012, owned by Currence. PIN was a magnetic stripe card, which never migrated to the EMV chip. It was therefore discontinued in 2012, after the switch-over from magnetic stripe authentication to EMV chip authentication in the Netherlands was completed. PIN was replaced by Maestro and V Pay debit cards, but as most PIN cards were already co-branded with Maestro long before 2012, consumers noticed little of the change. Like in many neighbouring countries, the PIN debit card often doubled as a cheque guarantee card for Eurocheque until those cheques were abolished on 1 January 2002. In contrast to its neighbouring countries (e.g. Belgium's Bancontact and Germany's Girocard), the Netherlands has not operated a national debit card network since 2012. History In 1987, the Dutch Central Bank investigated the possibility of merging the individual debit card schemes of the various banks in the Netherlands into a single system. This led in 1988 to the foundation of BeaNet, which provided a single network for all electronic payments and cash withdrawals in the Netherlands. Beginning in...
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  (NekoSock) Miya Ironami (iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 06:20:15 JST (NekoSock) Miya Ironami
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  @SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo France: hon hon get the fuque out with your Visa this iz Carte Bancaire country
  
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