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Tag: payment systems

In Praise of Cash

March 17, 2017May 25, 2017 ~ cafebedouin

"My main defence of cash will be simple and intuitive. As unsexy and analogue as cash is, it is resilient. It is easy to use. It requires little fancy infrastructure. It is not subject to arbitrary algorithmic glitches from incompetent programmers. And, yes, it leaves no data trail that will be used to project the … Continue reading In Praise of Cash

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