Root - Lightweight Programmable Bank

[awn]

So this is trending on HN right now:

Root: https://root.co.za
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14256300

Seems interesting.

[AdamH (Adam Hockley)]

Going have look joined wailting list

[DanielRivers (Daniel Rivers - Monzo Premium)]

I like their ‘virtual card’ concept, would like to see this in Monzo. I would feel safer having a ‘card’ to use for certain things online I can cancel if suspicions arise

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

Virtual cards are in Monzo’s plans

Winding down of prepay card

Just coming back to the original point @duncang we won’t halt the pre paid card scheme completely as soon as we launch current accounts. We’ll phase out the pre paid service over a number of months.[quote=“simonb, post:2, topic:7842”] The current accounts are built on a different system - and one that we’ve built completely ourselves from the ground up, [/quote] This comes with lots of benefits; we can explore cool new features like virtual card numbers, have more fine grain control over sec…

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

Root shared an update on their progress today -

What We've Been Up To

[crablab (Hugh)]

I really like the CLI…might make that for Monzo