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Ask HN: Digital paper money?

3 pointsby hacaloxalmost 8 years ago
Is there any way we can use a debit card the same way we use paper money? I can use paper money without having a bank account, but I feel like there is no way I can use a debit card without having a bank account.<p>Is there anyone here who feels that digital money and paper money should have the same benefits?<p>I don&#x27;t like banks. I don&#x27;t like how they multiply money out of nothing. I don&#x27;t like how they operate.I don&#x27;t want my money to be borrowed to others nor being invested in financial products I don&#x27;t know. I don&#x27;t want to lose my money if they fail as a company while investing my money.<p>Is there anyone out there feeling like this? Have you found any solutions to this problem?<p>Edit: Debit card instead of credit card

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vitovitoalmost 8 years ago
I think this is what&#x27;s known as a &quot;stored value card,&quot; whether it&#x27;s like a traditional gift card with a number and signature stored on a magnetic strip, or a smart card-based system, where a tamper-resistant cryptographic chip (just like the one in your SIM card) stores and manages a value on it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stored-value_card" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stored-value_card</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fiscal.treasury.gov&#x2F;fsservices&#x2F;gov&#x2F;pmt&#x2F;storedValue&#x2F;storedValue_home.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fiscal.treasury.gov&#x2F;fsservices&#x2F;gov&#x2F;pmt&#x2F;storedVal...</a>
DanBCalmost 8 years ago
&gt; I don&#x27;t like banks. I don&#x27;t like how they multiply money out of nothing. I don&#x27;t like how they operate.I don&#x27;t want my money to be borrowed to others nor being invested in financial products I don&#x27;t know. I don&#x27;t want to lose my money if they fail as a company while investing my money.<p>Some religions don&#x27;t allow interest to be earnt on loans. You might be interested in their financial products.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Islamic_banking_and_finance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Islamic_banking_and_finance</a>
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Cozumelalmost 8 years ago
If you want to use a &#x27;credit&#x27; card then that means your spending money you don&#x27;t have, so you&#x27;re spending the banks money, that&#x27;s why you need a bank account, sort of simple but that&#x27;s the idea.<p>A &#x27;debit&#x27; card is money you do have, and you don&#x27;t need a bank account for some of those, for example you can get &#x27;pre-paid&#x27; cards, you top them up with paper money then spend them wherever.<p>There&#x27;s also bitcoins and all the other digital currencies you can use, I think some places even have Bitcoin ATMS now.
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cjbprimealmost 8 years ago
(Deleting this, guess I&#x27;m wrong.)
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