[ELI5] Why we can just skip the PIN when using our cards?

Question

You know when it gets to the PIN screen, sometimes it’ll say, “Press cancel/enter to continue” and you can just… bypass the PIN. Doesn’t that just defeat the purpose of the PIN?

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Answer 1

I never see this. It either asks for the pin or directly takes the money. (Though we have bus tills here which serve both as validator and ticket selling… so it might be good for accidental NFC)

For me, “sometimes” is after 10 uses or when spending more money at once (in that case, the amount of uses resets).