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Bank [[debit card]]s, and the recently introduced real time verified and debited [[electronic payment services]] like Visa Electron (physical), Debit MasterCard (physical) or Verified by Visa (network based), are all examples of isolating the medium of exchange function. Debits do ''not'' have ''any'' of the other functions of money, that is, they are not a [[store of value]] (the [[unit of account]] being a national [[currency]], that is assumed to be the store instead), nor a [[standard of deferred payment]] (since transactions are instantaneous). This makes various kinds of transactions possible that were not before, since there is no need to get permission from any human to commit, nor have "limits" sent around the network to create a further [[privacy risk]]: either the transaction succeeds, or it fails, and all in real time. | Bank [[debit card]]s, and the recently introduced real time verified and debited [[electronic payment services]] like Visa Electron (physical), Debit MasterCard (physical) or Verified by Visa (network based), are all examples of isolating the medium of exchange function. Debits do ''not'' have ''any'' of the other functions of money, that is, they are not a [[store of value]] (the [[unit of account]] being a national [[currency]], that is assumed to be the store instead), nor a [[standard of deferred payment]] (since transactions are instantaneous). This makes various kinds of transactions possible that were not before, since there is no need to get permission from any human to commit, nor have "limits" sent around the network to create a further [[privacy risk]]: either the transaction succeeds, or it fails, and all in real time. | ||
A [[healthy buying infrastructure]] would seek some dominant position as the new medium of exchange, and might integrate or obsolete these corporate systems with a new [[standard]]. | A [[healthy buying infrastructure]] would seek some dominant position as the new medium of exchange, and might integrate or obsolete these corporate systems with a new [[standard]]. The [[Consumerium Credit]] [[visions]] explore the possibility of the [[Consumerium checker]] actually ''being'' the means to pay. | ||
See [[w:medium of exchange]] for a detailed discussion of theory around this, and how this function of money is changing as [[Internet Service]] is assumed in more and more transactions. | See [[w:medium of exchange]] for a detailed discussion of theory around this, and how this function of money is changing as [[Internet Service]] is assumed in more and more transactions. | ||