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Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by rat87 on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @10:30PM (#43628383)
Cash is arguably more secure and likely less traceable and easier to use if you don't trust governments. I don't see much use case for crypto other then illegal activities (although possibly not always immoral)
Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by dakial1 on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @12:32AM (#43628892)
That’s right crypto is also very traceable by the very public nature of the ledger
Re:Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant by carlhjerpe on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @07:11AM (#43630866)
Somehow Monero (XMR) gets around this, used in the biggest European underground pharmacy Archetyp.

Each transaction is somehow only known by sender and receiver