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A cashless future is a bad idea, but it’s not a conspiracy . (aeon.co)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

True, but there needs to be convenient digital solutions for that. Currently there are unfortunately no anonymous digital way to pay in a convenient way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Any way that is invented will quickly be cracked. Bitcoin is very complicated and was built for anonymity, yet the government figured out how to track transactions almost immediately once it gained enough popularity to see common use. The only real way I can see digital transactions being anonymous is an agreement that they won't be tracked, and that agreement will almost immediately be violated by corporations and the government alike.