The Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission had antitrust worries about the deal, and the Justice Department had filed suit to block the transaction.
Payment providers, especially mobile payment providers, claim to represent the best in consumer-centric solutions, but if they truly care about consumers, why do they block so many important transaction types that consumers want?
If your data is currency such as access control to various amounts of bitcoin on the block chain, then you have surrendered your financial transaction history and potentially the value itself.