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Re:The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money by icebraining on Sunday September 11, 2016 @07:49AM (#12472957)
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.
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Re:The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money by ChoHag on Sunday September 11, 2016 @09:08AM (#12473173)
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.
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Re:The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money by icebraining on Monday September 12, 2016 @03:59AM (#12477922)
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?

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Re:The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money by Tharkun on Sunday September 11, 2016 @08:25AM (#12473042)
It's a very small graph.
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