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Comment by elliekelly | Hacker News Reader

Cash?

Me and a few hundred pseudonymous individuals on Twitter will...what? Mail different currencies to a trusted central party?

> on Twitter

Don't go changing the goalposts now. You previously said:

> an international group that doesn't trust US based corporations with their personal data

So no Twitter for you.

Or mail the currencies to the international group directly?

What could go wrong? /s

This is subject to third party government veto (with or without due process) as it crosses borders. Crypto is not.

It's also slow and risky.

As in sending cash by mail potentially across borders? Is that really a solution?

Absolutely, you can even get it insured (although there's often a limit in the $1,000s or $10,000s).

How does getting it insured guarantee that the money will make it to its destination? That's only to get it back in the instance of theft. Anyone who's ever had family or friends in third-world countries can tell you firsthand that mailing even consumer goods is a bad idea. Mailing cash is plain foolish.

Would you also argue that email is useless because you can just send a letter? I don’t think “crypto is useless because you can just send cash by mail” is a serious argument, sorry.

Have you ever encountered a project actually fundraising in this way?

> Have you ever encountered a project actually fundraising in this way?

https://www.eff.org/files/2020/05/27/eff_membership_form_202...

Most projects don’t have any issue using bank accounts because they work well. As others have stated some projects do.

I periodically send an envelope of cash to Mullvad. So far I haven’t had any issues.

Mullvad supports Monero now, you can save yourself the trouble.

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