▲ 523 ▼ Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say (www.theguardian.com) submitted 2 years ago by mwalimu@baraza.africa to c/privacy@lemmy.ml 195 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Username@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago (2 children) Even central currencies can work if you can make offline and peer to peer payments. Not easy to pull off cryptographically, though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago True, but do you really expect them to let you use a central bank digital currency peer-to-peer and not have some way of revoking your access to it? If so, you're absolutely nuts, LOL. permalink fedilink source parent [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Does Taler do this? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago* I remember reading it in its docs. It probably does, but it is sure it was planned permalink fedilink source parent
[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago True, but do you really expect them to let you use a central bank digital currency peer-to-peer and not have some way of revoking your access to it? If so, you're absolutely nuts, LOL. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Does Taler do this? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago* I remember reading it in its docs. It probably does, but it is sure it was planned permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago* I remember reading it in its docs. It probably does, but it is sure it was planned permalink fedilink source parent