Bitesize Payments

About Bitesize Payments

Payments are one of things that we do every day - they just happen, really they are just like magic!!!! But we don't wake up and think today I want to make a payment - we just want to pay a bill or buy a coffee but payments make them happen. Paradoxically we both know more about them than we think and yet at the same time very little about what they are and how they work. I have spent a lot of time in our industry doing education and training sessions on Payments and I kinda thought it would be useful to record it. So, here we go.... In Bitesize Payments I try and explain the History of Payments, how they work and who does what. Also who get paid for what....that might surprise you! Anyway hopefully in less than 20 mins, week after week you can become a payment experts....... or at the very least someone who can ask the tough questions :-) Please let me have your feedback, input or question at bitesizepayments@gmail.com Thanks for listening.......

Publisher

Paul Thomalla

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 May 2023

Latest episode

10 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

41 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Aug 2026

   Identity, Privacy, and Surveillance

   The expanded Substack essay is here https://bitesizepayments.substack.com/p/identity-privacy-and-surveillance Orwell said privacy would be taken. Huxley said we'd hand it over. On digital payments, we managed both. And it's left us arguing about the wrong thing. Total transparency or total anonymity. Surveillance state or crypto shadows. Pick one. That framing is tidy, and it's false — because it misses why cash worked in the first place. Cash was never a principled privacy design. It ...

2. 

   19 Jun 2026

   The New Settlement Reality

   Welcome back to Bitesize Payments: Digital. I’m Paul Thomalla. There is an extended version of this on my Substack channel here. Last time we talked about programmable money — the idea that value itself could carry rules and conditions. Today we’re going somewhere that sounds like pure upside but isn’t. We’re talking about settlement. Specifically, we’re asking: what happens when settlement becomes instant? Not faster. Not near real-time. Actually, genuinely, irrevocably instant. Because he...

3. 

   14 May 2026

   Programmable Value

   Welcome to Bitesize Payments: Digital. I’m Paul Thomalla. The expanded Substack version is here :- https://bitesizepayments.substack.com/p/programmable-value Imagine a banknote that could decide whether you’re allowed to spend it. Or a coin that automatically splits itself when certain conditions are met. Or money that flows continuously from your account without you touching it, based on rules it’s executing. Money that acts. Money with agency. Money that doesn’t just sit there wai...

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Engagement

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