Do you ever wish there were Alternatives to Paypal/SWIFT/Visa/AMEX/Mastercard Electronic Payments?

in #cryptocurrency6 years ago (edited)

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You know what I hate? I hate being slogged for $30.00 when I want to transfer money overseas. That’s what I hate. I live in Belize and have business in Australia and the US and a bank in Puerto Rico … I hate being slogged just for sending money between those places.
And when I pay with PayPal I get slogged with 5%... And Visa and Mastercard etc. slog with fees and percentages… any third party financial institution takes its pound of flesh!

Partly this is because they’re so old and cumbersome originating in the 1950 at the dawn of the ‘Jetset’ and ‘American Express’ era.. It was glamorous and it achieved international payments for the first time… so no one asked any questions, they were just jubilant.

But why do we still have these dinosaurs in this day of the Apple Watch and satellite communications? Well partly because they have been such a great money-making racket for the ‘Big Banks Cartels’.

But things are changing!
Now more and more establishments are accepting payment by crypto currency. Cryptos have no middleman so you are essentially your own bank in your pocket. But it is still a bit tricky for the average person who is not an early adopter. You can lose your money in a blink of an eye. Scary stuff!

But there is a new group, ‘Initiative Q’, that is developing a new worldwide payment system using a crypto token.. the ‘Q’ as a medium to facilitate payments… fees will be minuscule compared to today’s clunky systems.. you won’t even have to carry a piece of plastic around.. that is so 1980s.
‘Initiative Q’ is being developed by a bunch of guys and gals who were involved with the development of PayPal which was revolutionary when it made its debut https://initiativeq.com/about.

It sounds very promising; the right people, using the right next-gen blockchain and encryption systems, no matter where you are, or where you want to send a payment to, you can do it for next to no fees.
Everyone wants that right? Christmas come at once, right?
Well no… When it comes to money everyone are very risk averse… I don’t want to be the first to try a new thing! You don’t want to risk accepting money for something that sounds new, or ‘scamy’, or ‘too good to be true’. We are used to taxes and bank fees.. Its perhaps even comfortable.. in a sadomasochistic sort of way…
So the folk at ‘Initiative Q’, are not just pretty faces… they have anticipated this ‘early adaptor conundrum’ that crypto currencies have as well… But they have solved it.

The barrier to adoption has been lowered by only allowing people to join by invitation, and then incentivizing the process. You want a new revolutionary payment system? Well you have to be invited! Invitation only! Now you have FOMO? (or perhaps just slightly intrigued? I know no one admits to FOMO!). The point is that you need an invitation and then there are also rewards for you inviting others to join… quite large incentives in fact… up to hundreds of dollars… Well that is if the whole project comes off and works according to the clever economic model https://initiativeq.com/knowledge/economic-model.
It depends on the ‘Q’ getting a large network of followers quickly and on the ‘Q’ attaining a value of one $US… (but what if it was only 40 cents and the reward was $65,000 … well that was not too shabby either…)

So the folk at ‘Initiative Q’ wants you to take a chance.. Live a little.. Take a walk on the wild side! … Join ‘Initiative Q’. It is a gamble, sure.. but one that has only upside and no downside… you only risk giving you name and email! Yes, no money down, no cc number, no payment, Nada! Only your email and your name. You only need an invitation to join the future of super low cost financial transactions…

And.. TaDa! .. here is my invitation for you if you want to check this out https://initiativeq.com/invite/Hl4zFtRsX

Just go there and sign up and wait for me to ‘approve’ you. It might be a good idea if you friend me or follow me here… so I kinda know you!

I bet you didn’t wake up this morning thinking “I’m joining the future of low cost payment systems today!”… but here we are… nothing to lose… everything to gain!

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