I don't see how conspiracy theories would discredit cash over card. They often cite the same reasons any other anti-card payment people have. They just have weird reasons to need those features. If they're paranoid about being "got" by "them," they're usually into the private nature of cash and all that goes along with it, same as any other privacy concerned person.
They certainly don't hurt it as much as drug dealers and money launderers.
An very new alternative to cash are Goldbacks. Cash made of gold, designed to be inflation proof cash.
Isn't this basically just a gold standard?
It is spendable fractional gold. 1oz of gold is thousands of dollars right now. This breaks gold down for smaller transactions.
Privacy matters the most to people who have something material to lose with it, this unfortunately for pr reasons (but fortunately for many other reasons) includes bigots
We need to stop making privacy and free speech political
Don't worry, this time next week they'll be on to the next thing to be angry and afraid about.
Cash is bad, but better than CBDC
Covid made this really hard and somewhat political. A lot of businesses stopped taking cash. Some still don't take cash. Covid was never spread much in surfaces but I wasn't trying to argue and look like some whack job antivax person.
Austrian citizen here and idk if he would qualify as far right in the US but our current president is one of them!
Are there reasonably okay options to paying digitally without the surveillance part (or at least less of it as compared to credit cards?) Blockchain is a nonstarter due to the practical limitations in sustaining proof of work and stake.
No. You can’t have privacy and also a ledger required to prevent money laundering and other scams.
who cares? share good privacy preserving tips. don't agree? do you and see if it works out.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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