25M Brits would struggle in a cashless society

Re:25M Brits would struggle in a cashless society by Avamander on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:56PM (#19409849)

Not who you asked this from, but in my opinion it has a huge problem of any mistakes being unfixable - either you mistransact or get scammed - taler provides no way to fix that.

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Re:25M Brits would struggle in a cashless society by teddyh on Saturday March 16, 2019 @04:28PM (#19410074)

I don’t get it – if you could just take it back whenever, it wouldn’t be “money”, now would it?

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Re:25M Brits would struggle in a cashless society by majewsky on Saturday March 16, 2019 @07:29PM (#19411097)

It would be money, but not cash. I can absolutely take back a Paypal transaction with buyer protection.

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Re:25M Brits would struggle in a cashless society by teddyh on Saturday March 16, 2019 @10:11PM (#19411778)

And, just like money is a layer built on top of cash, I assume that one could build a third-party escrow service on top of GNU Taler which has this “buyer protection” feature, with the added bonus of not one actor having a monopoly on it – whereas if Paypal stops liking you, you are out of luck.

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Re:25M Brits would struggle in a cashless society by Avamander on Sunday March 17, 2019 @12:51PM (#19414929)

There are other alternatives to Paypal as well. This feature should be built into the currency instead of just forcing everyone to reinvent the wheel for zero benefit.

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