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A Cashless, High-Value, Anonymous Currency: How?

Posted by Soulskill on from the this-must-be-the-mysterious-step-2 dept.

jfruh writes "The cashless future is one of those concepts that always seems to be just around the corner, but never quite gets here. There's been a lot of hype around Sweden going almost cashless, but most transactions there use easily traceable credit and debit cards. Bitcoin offers anonymity, but isn't backed by any government and has seen high-profile hacks and collapses in value. Could an experiment called MintChip brewing in Canada finally take us to cashless nirvana?"

6 of 400 comments (clear)

  1. Mint Chip? by Moheeheeko · · Score: 4, Funny

    So ice cream for currency?

    1. Re:Mint Chip? by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 2, Funny

      well, I already converted from ubuntu to mint...

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      "It is now safe to switch off your computer."
    2. Re:Mint Chip? by ArundelCastle · · Score: 3, Funny

      So ice cream for currency?

      Here in Canada it's winter most of the time, right now my assets are liquidated. :d
      Still better than ice cream phones.

  2. Disney Dollar by ZiakII · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have been waiting for the moment to happen, I have a large collection of Disney Dollars saved up for this moment!.

  3. Re:Gold by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    [ ] Digital

    This feature was not included in original requirements. Scope creep!

  4. Re:Watts by ImprovOmega · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is far too dangerous. It's bad enough that our cars are running around with gasoline equivalent to about 600kg of TNT (132MJ / gallon of gas, 4.164MJ / kg of TNT *20 gallons in a big tank) though gas is certainly less immediately explosive. Now imagine carrying far more than that on your person, in a far denser medium and imagine the mayhem that would ensue when people started letting loose with uncontrolled discharges of energy.

    Laptop batteries already accidentally start fires from overheating. If something like you're proposing overloads we could be missing a city block or two.