> If I give you cash and you take it to god knows where it can't be recovered either. If I give you money and let you leave with it then there is only so much a

> If I give you cash and you take it to god knows where it can't be recovered either. If I give you money and let you leave with it then there is only so much any system can do. But at least someone still has that money; it hasn't been destroyed. What happened here is the equivalent of sticking notes of the wrong currency into a currency-exchanging ATM, and it shredded them. The system itself was a destructor of value. That doesn't happen in the regular old cash-cards-and-banking system.