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Exactly. The idea of cash is great: we can pay each other without intermediaries and we know that the payment we're receiving has the value it appears to. Movi

Exactly. The idea of cash is great: we can pay each other without intermediaries and we know that the payment we're receiving has the value it appears to. Moving to a cashless society has some real drawbacks when it comes to privacy and freedom. Digital cash that can give us the befits of paper money without the privacy drawbacks of CBDCs or 3rd party middlemen isn't a bad thing at all.

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> Moving to a cashless society has some real drawbacks when it comes to privacy and freedom. As I understand it, the people developing GNU Taler, are trying to solve this problem and have come up with a promising system. https://taler.net/en/ https://taler.net/en/