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If you could build a one-state only payment system and convince Best Buy to adopt it, that would be a valid argument I suppose. The reality is that Best Buy has one nationwide point of sale system. Same with Staples. Same with K-Mart. Same with every large retailer. You add a tender type button in one state and it shows up in 50 states. That's a problem when pressing the button in 46 states is a federal crime.

Moving to Massachusetts now would be great until either A) The Money Services Round Table lobbied the Massachusetts legislature for a repeat of the "successful" regulations implemented in California, or B) we wanted to expand to large businesses to compete with Google Wallet and Visa. So it would be of limited benefit for a short while to move.



> You add a tender type button in one state and it shows up in 50 states. That's a problem when pressing the button in 46 states is a federal crime.

The "total with sales tax" button already does something different in every state.


I didn't know that you cared about local retailers; that changes quite a lot. Thanks for the clarification.




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