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Cash?
by elliekelly 4y ago
Cash?
- iskander 4y agoMe and a few hundred pseudonymous individuals on Twitter will...what? Mail different currencies to a trusted central party?
- engineer_22 4y agoWhat could go wrong? /s
- elil17 4y agoOr mail the currencies to the international group directly?
- 4oh9do 4y ago> on Twitter Don't go changing the goalposts now. You previously said: > an international group that doesn't trust US based corporations with their personal data So no Twitter for you.
- glerk 4y agoAs in sending cash by mail potentially across borders? Is that really a solution?
- elil17 4y agoAbsolutely, you can even get it insured (although there's often a limit in the $1,000s or $10,000s).
- iskander 4y agoHave you ever encountered a project actually fundraising in this way?
- 4oh9do 4y ago> Have you ever encountered a project actually fundraising in this way? https://www.eff.org/files/2020/05/27/eff_membership_form_2020.pdf https://www.eff.org/files/2020/05/27/eff_membership_form_202...
- elliekelly 4y agoI periodically send an envelope of cash to Mullvad. So far I haven’t had any issues.
- glerk 4y agoMullvad supports Monero now, you can save yourself the trouble.
- elil17 4y agoMost projects don’t have any issue using bank accounts because they work well. As others have stated some projects do.
- z3c0 4y agoHow does getting it insured guarantee that the money will make it to its destination? That's only to get it back in the instance of theft. Anyone who's ever had family or friends in third-world countries can tell you firsthand that mailing even consumer goods is a bad idea. Mailing cash is plain foolish.
- glerk 4y agoWould you also argue that email is useless because you can just send a letter? I don’t think “crypto is useless because you can just send cash by mail” is a serious argument, sorry.
- sneak 4y agoThis is subject to third party government veto (with or without due process) as it crosses borders. Crypto is not. It's also slow and risky.