Mwalimu@baraza.africa to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 months agoGlobal IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners saywww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square182fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGlobal IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners saywww.theguardian.comMwalimu@baraza.africa to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 months agomessage-square182fedilink
minus-squareUsername@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoEven central currencies can work if you can make offline and peer to peer payments. Not easy to pull off cryptographically, though.
minus-squareshortwavesurfer@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoTrue, 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.
Even central currencies can work if you can make offline and peer to peer payments.
Not easy to pull off cryptographically, though.
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.
Does Taler do this?