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Old Feb 9, 2015 | 6:35 am
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bthomas362
 
Join Date: May 2014
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Originally Posted by AllieKat
Without requiring it, acceptance is almost pointless.

Given Europay hasn't existed for years, it'd be difficult to get them on board Mastercard and Visa can provide tokenisation services, but they do that through banks. Ultimately, issuing banks are the ones who have to provide a product like this a tokenised account number and the private keys needed to generate transaction cryptograms. Apple had no problem because they're Apple.
It seemed like a fun toy for $50, and for that plus some other ancillary benefits, it seems worth the risk. If they say it'll work, I'm going to lean toward just trusting that for until I hear otherwise. Also, if anyone is interested in getting it, I have a referral code.
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