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diff --git a/content/entry/businesses-should-be-required-to-accept-cash.md b/content/entry/businesses-should-be-required-to-accept-cash.md index 4ac2785..ab7afce 100644 --- a/content/entry/businesses-should-be-required-to-accept-cash.md +++ b/content/entry/businesses-should-be-required-to-accept-cash.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Businesses in the U.S. don't have to accept cash as payment for purchases, but I Taking away the option to pay cash makes life harder on those trying to avoid mass surveillance and turns stores into Big Brother's little helpers. In order to protect the right to privacy, we need the right to private everyday transactions, and for that we need the right to pay cash. -The ability to buy things online anonymously is also important, but cannot be done conveniently using cash. For that, I think we ought to adopt a privacy-preserving digital payment system like [GNU Taler](https://taler.net). +The ability to buy things online anonymously is also important, but cannot be done conveniently using cash. For that, I think we ought to adopt a privacy-preserving digital payment system like [GNU Taler](https://taler.net/en/). We should not use cryptocurrency which has a track record of extreme energy inefficiency, being impossible to regulate or tax, mostly not private, wild fluctuations in value, glacial transaction confirmation times and single-digit transaction throughput. Maybe all those problems can be solved, but I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, I consider cryptocurrency not viable. |