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datashovel on Jan 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dwolla – Free micropayments

Why aren't more people using this for micropayments? Instead of paying an arm and a leg in transaction fees to credit card companies?

loceng on Jan 23, 2015 [–]

Because platforms generally make money from transaction fees, so they're reducing their revenues/profits if they adopt such things.

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