{"id":720,"date":"2021-01-20T00:09:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T00:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2021\/01\/20\/mobile-payments-may-soar-thanks-to-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2021-01-20T00:09:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T00:09:47","slug":"mobile-payments-may-soar-thanks-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2021\/01\/20\/mobile-payments-may-soar-thanks-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile payments may soar, thanks to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<section class=\"page\">\n<p>One of the most frequently asked questions in these days of pandemic is, &#8220;When will things get back to normal?&#8221; Valid answers are generally, &#8220;They won&#8217;t. Goodbye, handshakes&#8221; and &#8220;In stages, ending when a vaccine is approved and widely distributed.&#8221; When it comes to payments, the answers are more complicated, but not any more comforting.<\/p>\n<p>Paper money and coins have been plummeting in usage for years, and COVID-19 certainly isn&#8217;t going to help. From a retail and finance perspective, those paper and metal currencies are more expensive to manage (to count, to secure), are easy theft targets (stolen stacks of non-marked $20s are about as non-traceable as possible) and a lot slower typically than using mobile payments or credit\/debit cards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3542620\/mobile-payments-may-soar-thanks-to-covid-19.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most frequently asked questions in these days of pandemic is, &#8220;When will things get back to normal?&#8221; Valid answers are generally, &#8220;They won&#8217;t. Goodbye, handshakes&#8221; and &#8220;In stages, ending when a vaccine is approved and widely distributed.&#8221; When it comes to payments, the answers are more complicated, but not any more comforting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}