46 Bite of Seattle food festival required an app download from the company Cheq for food payment. Fiasco follows. xpost r/seattleWA (old.reddit.com) posted 1 year ago by xleb2 1 year ago by xleb2 +46 / -0 Bite of Seattle (complaint) Anybody else have a terrible time using the app, CHEQ? Horrible system. Edit: After digging thru the Seattle Reddit. It seems like more people... 20 comments share 20 comments share save hide report block hide replies
I hope central bank digital currencies and digital ID go over exactly as this shit did.
They've got one chance to get the public to accept it, and they're gonna fuck it up.
They're not going to give you a choice, just like they didn't with trans rights or outlawing internal combustion engines.
The only country (I think?) so far that has tried to force it through was Nigeria. It resulted in a massive upswing in crypto/bitcoin usage.
Bitcoin is a half solution because of every transaction being permanently publicly visible.
Monero's alright with me.