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blackfox026  ·  3822 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I do not support the cashless society

I don't want to live in a cashless society because it will make purchasing illicit substances much more risky and difficult. Without the ability to make untraceable cash payments, psychedelics will basically disappear from the market.





homer  ·  3822 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Cryptocurrency will still be here. I'm not one of those "bitcoin will takeover the world" people, but it has its uses.

user-inactivated  ·  3822 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've never yet had a drug dealer who took bitcoin.

homer  ·  3813 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's because money still exist. The discussion is about a cashless society.

dirkson  ·  3822 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You know, you say that... But many of them do. Take a look at the "Silk Road" an onion site dedicated to this very concept. People buy and sell drugs using bitcoins.

Crazy world, eh?

user-inactivated  ·  3821 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I wasn't counting the Silk Road because the Silk Road as an entity crashed and burned last year and has yet to be replaced by a reputable website of similar purpose. I stand by my previous statement, which is to say that I have never met a single pot dealer in the flesh, who I bought from, who took bitcoins. Maybe someday. Not today.

_refugee_  ·  3822 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nah. I'm thinking barter economy. You'll lose some dealers but the ones that stay in will be the ones really committed to the game.

user-inactivated  ·  3819 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's a good thing.

blackfox026  ·  3818 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No, it's absolutely not a good thing. A society in which psychedelics are absent is a society I would not want to live in.

user-inactivated  ·  3818 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Why not? What is good about them?