The name
Payment used to be weighed. Then we learned to count.
Before Rome had coins it had bronze by the pound, and the word for paying was pendere — to weigh. Coinage changed that. A coin carried its value on its face, so you no longer had to trust the scale, the weigher, or the purity of the lump. You only had to count. The word shifted with it.
Paying people is still hard work
Somewhere between the forum and the payout file, we went back to weighing. Either you trust a processor to hold your money, or you do the work by hand — and neither is a way to run a business.
- Re-key a wallet address for every payment, with no undo if it is wrong
- Hand your money to an intermediary and wait out holds and reserves
- No way to let AP or AR pay anyone without sharing your keys
Counted out in public, without the busywork
Rome called a single pool divided among many a distributio — one source, many recipients, done in the open. Numerari keeps the openness and takes out the labour.
- Save each recipient once; we verify the address before it can be paid
- Sub-wallets let AP and AR do their jobs without your keys
- You sign from your own wallet, and every payment leaves a public receipt