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RE: 🗣 Daily Discussion 🗣 - Topic: Mastercard Eyes Cryptocurrency Refunds in New Patent Application
Wow, this is pretty big news.
While I totally agree that patents tend to stifle innovation, I could see the ability for merchants to offer refunds to customers via a MasterCard smart contract could go a long way towards building more wide-scale adoption of the Ethereum platform.
An issue arises if other people try to offer this 'feature' which should be open, they could be locked out due to the patent enforcement.