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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by amenghra on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:35PM (#14921724)
Does your bank account, credit card, etc. count as digital money? Your account balance is just bits somewhere.
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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by komali2 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @07:28PM (#14924973)
Well, ok, but my account balance is guaranteed by a government (for well above my balance). I don't get that with digital currency.
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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by scierama on Thursday August 03, 2017 @05:02PM (#14923862)
You're conflating records management with actual currency.
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