Electronic Value Exchange
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What’s it about?
Discover the hidden cooperative architecture behind the credit card network—a system built not by a single genius, but through decades of messy compromise and shared infrastructure that powers every tap and click.
You’ll learn
- How a neutral cooperative solved the coordination problem
- The real innovation: the four-party model
- Why interchange fees are the system's economic engine
- How trust and risk management built a global network