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shawnz on June 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why are credit card chip readers so slow?

So if offline transactions are viable, and faster, then why doesn't the US use them?

kalleboo on June 26, 2017 [–]

They were viable 30 years ago, maybe not today

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