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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by tshaddox on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @08:37PM (#30436463)
It sounds like you're talking about taking cash to your bank and depositing it into your own bank account, which of course you can do. The original commenter was talking about taking cash to your bank and somehow very quickly distributing it to everyone you owe money to this month.
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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by XorNot on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @09:31PM (#30436869)
The original commenter is talking about a solution which would be vulnerable to the exact sort of "digital jail" being referenced in the article. They've added a central authority to their decentralized solution, in the form of the absolute classic way banks are used against people - by freezing accounts and deposits etc.
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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by throwaway22032 on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @10:42PM (#30437316)
Nah, because you can just go to any money transmitter. Which is actually just anyone, if we didn't scare people off it by making payments this like, scary bureaucratic taxy AML'y thing.

I have online banking on my phone, if you wanna give me cash to send it to someone, no problem, why not.

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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by pdonis on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @08:41PM (#30436491)
> The original commenter was talking about taking cash to your bank and somehow very quickly distributing it to everyone you owe money to this month.

Exactly.

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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by ddingus on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @01:04AM (#30438174)
Use auto bill pay?
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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by throwaway28203 on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @09:44PM (#30436951)
I use autopay for all of my monthly bills.
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