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sanexyesterday at 9:48 PM1 replyview on HN

If only there was some sort of alternate monetary system based on cryptography that enabled instant micro payments.


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salawattoday at 1:36 AM

Using a public ledger, that is just surveilled and treated as prosecution futures, or targeting for kidnappers. Yes, we know. It's also got major usability issues, and tends to end up in practice defaulting to a centralized custodial model anyways for the vast majority of users. Where it can't, the onramps to convert to the currency of the land are outlawed.