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It's too bad there isn't some sort of reconfigurable QR code stamp thing that you can use to sign something. Say, for example, you enter in the payee, amount and date, it digitally signs it with your private key from your bank, creates a QR code with the data and moves tiny little stamp pins up/down and you press it onto the paper.



If you're going through that much technological effort, why still use paper cheques?


Because it doesn't require the other person to use anything technological.


Other than a bank or cheque cashing service, anyway...

The niche seems pretty small: payments too large for cash, too small for certified bank drafts, to people taking too few payments to have technologying up make sense.


I think that's kind of the problem: making it easy enough for people to use modern cryptography to electronically send money to someone quickly.




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