Kelidarl gently touched the fast-food restaurant's payment portal with her smart wristband, and the electronic system's voice announced, "Payment completed, you have paid 2.25 Yuan."
"It really is convenient," Kelidarl entered her usual state of admiration.
In fact, on Iridium Star, various forms of quick payment had existed for thousands of years, and even before the Earth had entered the Intergalactic Era, the rudiments of quick payment had already appeared in the form of scanning QR codes. However, in many civilizations, the use of physical currency is still a payment method that is hard to abandon.
The situation on Iridium Star was somewhat unique; there were no commercial banks on Iridium Star. Due to its economic system bearing traits of communism, the "money" that Iridium Star citizens had was directly tied to their personal citizen identity. Holding credit currency itself was Iridium Star issuing credit currency to citizens, mainly to satisfy people's daily needs.
