I mean that it looks similar to Brazilian pix. Honestly that might be a blessing in disguise because people learned to make payments by pointing their phones to QR codes overnight. But it is also feeless for person to person payments so there’s less of an incentive for people to use bitcoin.

Being independent of US companies is just a special case of being independent of all companies. Given the option to transact freely, what's not to like? I'm not saying the european version is less evil than visa. I wouldn't switch to whatever devilish surveillance nightmare they've designed, but I'm...