Raiden, Plasma, Qtum, NEM ... moving towards mainstream payments

Today Mr. Positive Blue and Mr. Negative Red meet Mrs. Inquisitive Brown to talk about mainstream payments. Mr Neutral Black has made a through reading of the document and Mr Technological Green is around just in case. Mr Market Purple has joined today for a beer.

- Recently, we spoke about Pundi-X, it would seem that they were going to use Ethereum to make payments at point-of-sale.

- That would not work! Is too slow!

- There are recent news. Apparently they have implemented NEM and QTUM.

- What does that imply?

- Nem is quite efective to deal quickly with transactions, ethereum is not today but the Raiden and Plasma projects will change that in a year. NEM is got the catapult project and they are migrating to C.

- Is C better than Java? 

- Better is a term I would not use to compare programming languages but It is very efficient, very close to compiler code. 

- Oh, by the way NEM has now a Magento implementation.

- Oh, magento, sound familiar but...

- Magento is one of the top plataforms for shops on the internet.

- That is an interesting step. It seems that this coin is moving in the right direction.

- What about Qtum?

- Far less mature in terms of time.

- Not close to VISA levels, but will be near in one to two years.

- What about Ethereum?

- The Raiden network is working now on testnet. Low transaction fees and excelent speed. 

- Who will win the race?

- Difficult to say. Ethereum has plenty of developing power behind, but NEM is more agile, Qtum is a promise.

- It going to be great for market player like me!

- And for developers!