Curve doesn’t work in the USA, to save my fellow subjects a minute clicking through the play store
Oh yeah I forgot to mention that
Does it work for mainland EU?
I’m not seeing anything on regional restrictions, if anything their website makes it sound like they work globally (or I assume with anything that takes visa cards?)It works in the entire European Economic Area (EEA).
if you’re using Graphene, you’re probably overly privacy sensitive. If you’re […] just use cash instead.
I feel that’s the advice for the people like me, here. But I appreciate all the detail information.
that sounds shit advice. I’m not a graphene user, but no, someone using it does not mean they are “overly privacy sensitive”. the person saying this seems to be overly wanting to tell what everyone shoukd do.
another point is that if you’re using an online service to pay, you are probably doing it because you are paying for an online thing, and in turn you can’t pay with cash.
In Poland some banks directly use NFC for contactless payments, thanks to that I can pay with my degoogled phone (Murena Fairphone 5).
Same with Crédit Agricole (France), works just fine on LineageOS.
Here in Germany too: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/nfc-datenschutzfreundlich-bezahlen-mit-dem-android-phone/
There’s precious little detail about what’s going on here, but I assume Curve’s NFC payment system hasn’t enabled Device or Strong verification like Google Wallet.
I’m honestly ok with that “lower security” as long as there are appropriate safeguards to only paying when the phone is unlocked (which it should never be outside of my control). But that itself seems to assume Curve won’t enable those things in the future, which is uncertain.
Needs Play Services, not interested. I’ll stick with cash for now, it’s less traceable anyway (if you use coins, bank notes are numbered and thus traceable)
Monero.
No other “coins” are actually private. Everything else that claims private is literally a snitch. Zcash, etc. Bitcoin was made purely public with all data logged, tracked and verified on every block.
Just use the card your bank gives you.
