Bank transfers as a payment method (2021)(bitsaboutmoney.com)

85 points by shsachdev 3 years ago | 134 comments

Credit card debt collection(bitsaboutmoney.com)

655 points by got-any-grapes 3 years ago | 368 comments

Bits about Money essay by Patrick McKenzie on how credit card debt collection works as the waste stream of consumer finance.

A very Chicago gamble(bitsaboutmoney.com)

150 points by gregorymichael 1 year ago | 77 comments

The gift card accountability sink(bitsaboutmoney.com)

91 points by walterbell 10 months ago | 76 comments

Deposit insurance maximization as a service(bitsaboutmoney.com)

93 points by graeme 3 years ago | 76 comments

Financial systems take a holiday(bitsaboutmoney.com)

195 points by nfriedly 2 years ago | 178 comments

Credit card debt collection(bitsaboutmoney.com)

655 points by got-any-grapes 3 years ago | 368 comments

Bits about Money essay by Patrick McKenzie on how credit card debt collection works as the waste stream of consumer finance.

Airlines make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes(theatlantic.com)

473 points by chapulin 3 years ago | 527 comments

An Atlantic essay by Ganesh Sitaraman arguing airlines now earn more from mileage programs and credit card partnerships than from flying planes.

Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty(blog.tripu.info)

416 points by gasull 3 years ago | 200 comments

A personal blog essay arguing that end-to-end encrypting private data and communications has become an ethical duty, using a glass-walls analogy.

Seeing like a bank(bitsaboutmoney.com)

517 points by arkadiyt 3 years ago | 370 comments

Bits about Money essay by Patrick McKenzie, published November 2023, on how banks perceive and process the world and their customers.

Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years(krebsonsecurity.com)

925 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 228 comments

KrebsOnSecurity article on a MasterCard DNS server misconfiguration, a typo'd nameserver domain that went unnoticed for nearly five years until a researcher registered it.

Mechanical Watch (2022)(ciechanow.ski)

700 points by razin 4 months ago | 118 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive blog article explaining how a mechanical watch mechanism works, with draggable 3D demonstrations.