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Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant

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667 points jcartw | 1 comments | 4/8/2025, 10:59:00 AM | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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marcodiego ◴[4/8/2025, 11:55:00 AM] No.43620631[source]▶

I'm a Brazilian. Everything here can be paid through pix. It's very convenient, fast reliable and, for a country like ours where walking on the streets with money is a risk, safe.

There's only one reason I don't use it: there's no FLOSS app (AFAIK) to use it.

Something as common as the dominant payment system should not depend on proprietary software.

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1. carlosjobim ◴[4/8/2025, 2:10:00 PM] No.43621994[source]▶

The money is, of course, not open source, so there will never be any FLOSS app for it.