Explains payment options for small businesses, including card readers, bank terminals versus alternatives, and tap to pay apps, mainly for UK merchants. Also covers restaurant operations topics such as keeping staff motivated.
Website: https://mobileterminal.ghost.io/
Long-form essays on financial infrastructure such as payments, banking regulation, fraud and compliance, written from an insider's perspective. Readers get historical context, regulatory explanation and analysis of live policy controversies.
Research-driven analysis of crypto and fintech economics aimed at venture investors, examining who captures value in stablecoin payments, onchain finance and companies like Rain. Each issue reconstructs figures from primary data sources and flags methodological caveats.
Patrick McKenzie reads and expands on his Bits about Money essays about the plumbing of the financial system, such as payments finality, credit card economics and charitable giving infrastructure. Each episode pairs an explanation of how the system works with concrete case studies and updated postscripts.
Long-form essays arguing that the web conflates access with authority, leaving credentials, payments and intermediaries structurally insecure and costly, especially now that AI has collapsed the cost of attacks. Issues pair full essays with executive summaries and short versions, drawing on technical detail, history and economic argument.
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