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I wonder would it make any better if Apple is the one which creates their own currency. As we know, the track record of Apple respecting privacy of its users is
by langitbiru 7y ago
I wonder would it make any better if Apple is the one which creates their own currency. As we know, the track record of Apple respecting privacy of its users is significantly better than Facebook/Google.
- digitalengineer 7y agoNot required. All Apple needs to do is allow the purchase of said item through your "Apple account". The retailer won't know who exactly bought what, neither will your bank. (In the Netherlands the banks are going to sell the 'who-bought-what-from-who'. The bank will simply receive your monthly list of purchases without the data). The question is: would that work?
- efaref 7y ago1 iBuck: $999.
- basicplus2 7y agoOr $1.333820449136241002 = 1.333739068902037589 PentiumSX837$
- inapis 7y agoIt's not exclusively about privacy. At the end of the day Apple is still a corporation beholden to its shareholders.
- langitbiru 7y agoSo if we cannot trust the company, we are left with two options. 1. Nobody (decentralized), like Bitcoin. 2. USD cryptocurrency, created by the US government.
- forgone 7y agoUSD (and all other currencies) are already a tokenised currencies