A messy, badly communicating shambles might well turn out to be the optimum approach to this problem. There is reason to believe that efficiency is a bad thing when it comes to being identified and tracked.
Europe has opened a door to a universal wallet
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#14It’s not hard to imagine a future where Dutch farmers go to a gas (or charging) station on their way to a protest find they suddenly can’t use their money.
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#15It is 100% a worse option than a cloud drive.
Anyone in the digital ID space knows there's a war going on. States will adopt digital ID. And everyone is rushing to own it.
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#16Every shop on the road nowadays has a QR code you scan to make a payment using any UPI[0] compatible app. Thus, the age old problem of a shop not having change is quite rare nowadays (if you're not a minor that is, because all UPI apps are 18+). UPI is centered around your phone number, which is linked to your bank account as part of KYC. Thus, you can make a payment to anyone who doesn't even have UPI using their phone number, thus transferring funds directly into their bank account.
DigiLocker[1] is gaining popularity, with some airports allowing you in without physical ID if you have your ID on the app and scan yourself in. I've only been to one airport that does this before, and I sadly was not aware of it at the time.
It's nice that more and more countries are realizing the usefulness of this as tech becomes more and more ubiquitous and accessible to everyone.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
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Wonder how long until people get desperate enough to steal phones and the owner's thumb...
Easier to force them to unlock it then and there. Less bloody.
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stealing it and having an exploit to unlock it
Wonder how long until people get desperate enough to steal phones and the owner's thumb...
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#20It's nice that the EU is giving room to such innovation, but I wanted to point out that stuff like this is quite widespread in India: Every shop on the road nowadays has a QR code you scan to make a payment using any UPI[0] compatible app. Thus, the age old problem of a shop not having change is quite rare nowadays (if you're not a minor that is, because all UPI apps are 18+). UPI is centered around your phone number…
I didn't know this, and neither do minors in India who use it for daily purchases.