Currency is popular again, especially the $100 bill

Re:Currency is popular again, especially the $100 bill by altacc on Sunday October 27, 2019 @01:13PM (#21370976)

There's another commenter below confirming this. The article mentions criminals switching to crypto, which misses out those with an increasing mistrust of financial institutions who prefer crypto.

I wonder if the criminal use case has not been reduced that much by crypto, as I imagine cold hard cash that's acceptable anywhere globally is preferable. Crypto may be good for some transactions, but cash will be king for a long time yet.

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Re:Currency is popular again, especially the $100 bill by djsumdog on Sunday October 27, 2019 @01:18PM (#21371015)

That part of the article made no sense. Most crypto currency is entirely traceable. It's literally an immutable distributed ledger of every transaction ever made. Sure there are things like tumblers that try to redistribute coins, but who knows how well they actually work.

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Re:Currency is popular again, especially the $100 bill by undefined3840 on Sunday October 27, 2019 @01:22PM (#21371049)

Depends on how you use it. If you own your own private keys and aren’t transacting from a hot wallet like Coinbase then yes your transactions are public but your identity is not tied to your address

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