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Re:Drug cartels use dollar bill serial numbers as random key... by anticensor on Saturday July 20, 2019 @09:34AM (#20485652)
In high-inflation economies like Turkey, they do full emission replacements periodically to avoid disappeared currency issue.

> Destroy the bill, destroy the liability

Except it is illegal to randomly destroy a banknote (coins are different).

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Re:Drug cartels use dollar bill serial numbers as random key... by crankylinuxuser on Saturday July 20, 2019 @11:33AM (#20486356)
> Except it is illegal to randomly destroy a banknote (coins are different).

We're talking about drug dealers and other major crime perpetrators... And you're thinking they care about the crime of 'destroying a bank note'?

I think it'd be safe to chalk that up to "I don't think they care".

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Re:Drug cartels use dollar bill serial numbers as random key... by anigbrowl on Saturday July 20, 2019 @03:28PM (#20487785)
So what?
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