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isn't it like a debit card with extra steps? at a store I mean

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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago

Tap and chip didn't catch on until the 2010s for sure, but debit cards in general were everywhere in the US. They just had a barcode you swiped.