> Coin is trying to replace your credit cards (no other cards, like ID, Buss Pass, etc) with a single electronic card.
After living in Hong Kong for 12 days, I can safely say they have a superior system for this premise alone.
The octopus card. Accepted virtually everywhere any other card is accepted. It's like any other e-wallet with load, but its ubiquity in service acceptance is amazing.
Everyone has an octopus card. Everyone important to the infrastructure of the country accepts octopus card.
No. octopus card is just another card but because people like using it so much places like 7-11 won't mind to have it. You load money into the octopus card (not sure if now banks allow account linking). At least when I was kid that was how things worked.
After living in Hong Kong for 12 days, I can safely say they have a superior system for this premise alone.
The octopus card. Accepted virtually everywhere any other card is accepted. It's like any other e-wallet with load, but its ubiquity in service acceptance is amazing.
Everyone has an octopus card. Everyone important to the infrastructure of the country accepts octopus card.