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But it's much much harder to acquire a privacy-respecting contactless payment setup than carry a bunch of coins.
by leppr 5y ago
But it's much much harder to acquire a privacy-respecting contactless payment setup than carry a bunch of coins.
- mdp2021 5y ago> privacy-respecting contactless payment setup Do you know any? If I could vet its security and """reasonably total""" privacy, the idea could be tempting - e.g. to buy a cheap device to only do monetary transactions. I am not sure, first of all, how you would transform cash into credit into a personal device.
- leppr 5y agoI don't know of a way that's both widespread, cheap and legal. * Country-specific: prepaid cards like Suica in Japan, purchasable with cash from ATMs. * Not that cheap: offshore bank account. * Not legal: crypto card with "borrowed" KYC. So basically unless you're lucky to be living in a country with a privacy-respecting culture, you have to act like a criminal to regain the basic right to privacy.
- mdp2021 5y agoDo you mean that you obtain a card, go to an ATM, insert the card and the cash, and recharge it - without the ATM knowing it is you? Because I also know of systems which are related to banks, but explicitly come from your account, invisibly to the seller - but the bank knows everything. I have seen anonymous pre-paid cards which had in the back the space for a signature, and were accompanied by instructions such as "must be signed to be valid".