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Voting Begins For Canadian Digital Currency App

Posted by samzenpus on from the voting-on-dollars dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Royal Canadian mint has been pursuing the creation of mintchip, a digital currency for Canada, through a publicly held app contest. App development and consideration is now complete, and the public can now vote on which phone or desktop digital payment apps should be endorsed and publicized by the mint. There has been multiple arguments that the mintchip could easily have the same security, privacy, and traceability concerns as current digital payment, rather than actually introducing the benefits of cash."

3 of 84 comments (clear)

  1. Re:lol fraud by Nerdfest · · Score: 5, Funny

    So far, I was under the impression that our digital currency was Tim Horton's Gift Cards, and they've stayed relatively secure.

  2. Re:*facepalm* by cheesecake23 · · Score: 3, Funny

    As a Canadian, I'd like to apologize for the insecure, amateur-hour embarrassment that is MintChip. Hopefully it will go away quietly.

    I imagine it will go away as quietly as this wafer-thin MintChip.

  3. Re:*facepalm* by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 1, Funny

    Considering that Canadians call their currency "loonies", with straight faces, there is no need for apologies . . .

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