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I extracted a chip (by dissolving the plastic in acetone) from my card and glued it to the wriststrap of my Pebble watch :)

When using contactless payment with my card, about 10% of the time the payment terminal tells me to insert the card to the reader slot instead and enter my PIN. I assumed this is a general security feature, but I guess it depends on the issuing bank then. This in Europe.

Well, I still have a backup physical card. It just is annoying to get it out of my wallet.

Nice hack but sounds quite unsafe, I like having to unblock de phone in order to use it.

Garmin Pay, Samsung pay if you have a compatible bank and card, PayPal in Germany and sometimes banks' own systems.

I had a very weird (bad) experience with Curve support so I couldn't recommend it.

NFC payments work, it's only Google who claims a phone not patched for 8 years is safe and secure, but phone with working hardware attestation and patched 6 months ahead of everyone else is insecure.

Curve Pay has worked well for me. Only good alternative as it doesn't depend on Google Play Services too

Yes you can use Curve pay.

Edit: Apparently that's Europe only? I'm in Europe so yeah. I didn't know that.

Paypay works as well (at least in Germany)

There's Curve Pay in Europe. In the US, I'm not sure.