Mastodon post with no text and an image showing a Monobank card strapped to the back of a Pinephone with some rubber bands. The text within the image reads "Contactless payments on PinePhone (working Google Pay/Apple Pay alternative)".
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[–] 25 points 3 months ago (4 children)

We can go even further and create some sort of physical tokens that we can give to each other. These token would be secure, completely private, waterproof and even work offline. Maybe we could even put some pictures on them and make them vision-impaired accessible - the possibilities are endless!

People forget that cash is a technology - a pretty good one too.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Banks are closing ATMs left and right. It is getting increasingly harder to withdraw paper money and it sucks.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    completely private

    Cash is more tracable then most think: Article is in German

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    It's nothing compared to digital transfers. Sure you can trace via serial number but that's mostly safe for us normal people. With digital transfer the privacy leaks can affect us normal people as the data can easily leak or be sold, stolen.

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