Arrived in Aruba yesterday after my uncle passed away. Good to be back 'home' with family. š
Hit the barber today and ran into an old colleague from my Aruban police force days! When it came time to pay, it was cash or a local payment method called Sentoo.
From a user perspective, Sentoo was flawlessāscan a QR code, hit a payment link, open the local bank app, and approve. Seamless. But looking at it through a technical and merchant cost lens, Lightning and
still blow it out of the water. ā”ļøš„
Numo Pay would have been an absolute game-changer for this merchantāinstant, zero-fee tap-to-pay offline via ecash, backing up directly to
. The island is already comfortable with QR-based instant payments... now we just need to help local shops swap out the legacy banking middleman for sovereign rails! š¦š¼
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