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Re:In Urban China, Cash Is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete by TACIXAT on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @10:22AM (#14796700)
If most are screen based, you could just dynamically generate them and have them expire after N minutes. If someone wants a printed one make them jump through an application process for a long standing code.
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Re:In Urban China, Cash Is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete by teknologist on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @09:31PM (#14801479)
They do for individual payments but storeowners sometimes tape their printed QR codes to walls and counters and they seem to want accommodate this use case too (essentially POS-less or "bring your own POS")
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