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I write about history, economics and technology behind payments | Working at a tech startup

Joined December 2022
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more practically, baseline reading: - FRB/Fed Payment Studies (very good) - Glenbrook Payments Bootcamp / Guide to Payments - ISO standards (8583/20022) - loads 3rd party docs/blogs/books (but really depends on which sides you care most about)
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The year was 1958. In the weeks leading up to September that year, something unsuspecting happened in the town of Fresno in California. Over 65,000 of its residents received an envelope containing a plastic card. A thread🧵 on the origin of the modern credit card 1/
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