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Re:Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users by vitehozonage on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @12:08PM (#37930749)
How else can you do private digital transactions other than with something like monero? Given that cash is dying, and mass surveillance on all transactions is incredibly dystopian for reasons I hope are obvious, it fascinates me that HN doesn't see the importance and utility there. What is one meant to do in a few decades if they want to pay for an abortion, buy a copy of 1984, or some weed, receive onlyfans money, or whatever the society doesnt accept in x years?

Imagine you're in a different thread about social credit scores, or mastercard selling user data, or Canadian protestors having their bank accounts frozen...

Re:Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users by mrguyorama on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:30PM (#37933593)
>Given that cash is dying

And famously, humans did ZERO transacting before the US invented paper currency, right? Or maybe a market exists externally to the financial instruments that can operate in it? Crypto isn't needed for barter. Crypto isn't needed for secret barter. Hell, swap buy sell guides were a thing in my childhood, before anyone paid for anything on the internet.

Re:Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Thursday October 19, 2023 @02:28AM (#37939244)
China invented paper currency, in 7th century AD.