Re:The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money
by wingerlang on Sunday September 11, 2016 @05:48AM
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What is the significance of this? Tracking who has what money?
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Re:The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money
by jacobolus on Sunday September 11, 2016 @05:52AM
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Purchases you make with cash you got from an ATM become traceable to your bank account.
Re:The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money
by icebraining on Sunday September 11, 2016 @07:49AM
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That only works if every single shop/service tracks the serial numbers, otherwise you have no way of knowing if they were exchanged somewhere in between.
Re:The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money
by ChoHag on Sunday September 11, 2016 @09:08AM
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You don't need to step very far from cash in hand before this becomes not just viable but ridiculously easy. Just feed notes individually into your bank-approved combined till/safe/note scanner.
Re:The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money
by icebraining on Monday September 12, 2016 @03:59AM
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I think you understimate the effort of requiring everyone - from large chains to street food stalls - to always use note scanners.
Bank? How many people selling fruit from their cart even use banks for their sales?