London Launches World's First Contactless Payment Scheme For Street Performers (theverge.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Here's a casualty of the cashless society you might not have previously thought of: the humble street performer. After all, if more of us are paying our way with smartphones and contactless cards, how can we give spare change to musicians on the subway? London has one solution: a new scheme that outfits performers with contactless payment terminals. The project was launched this weekend by the city's mayor, Sadiq Khan, and is a collaboration with Busk In London (a professional body for buskers) and the Swedish payments firm iZettle (which was bought this month by PayPal for $2.2 billion). A select few performers have been testing iZettle's contactless readers on the streets for the past few weeks, and Khan now says the scheme will be rolled out across London's 32 boroughs.

Comments

Re:Let's hope...

[Dog-Cow]

Let's hope stupid people like you aren't allowed to breed.

Re:This is what the Mayor is worried about?

[mjwx]

This is a good lesson to you younger Slashdotters out there: racism makes you stupid.

Except that "muslim" isn't a race.

Who's stupid again?

Sigh, thinking you can fool us into believing your bigotry isn't bigotry by arguing over what kind of bigotry it is does not work.

So the answer to "Who's stupid again?" is you. Trying to argue that you're not a cunt by saying you're a different kind of cunt still means you are a cunt.