Physical bitcoin, can be transacted offline. Just hand it over like a dollar bill:
Still mostly useful for larger amounts, though, due to the relative high cost of hardware, but it's new.
Still mostly useful for larger amounts, though, due to the relative high cost of hardware, but it's new.
So everyone pays tithe to a single organization that creates 'trustable' units of physical currency. So new!
At least with cash you're not destroying the physical currency every time you use it. (That and the Mint's security measures are just a liittle more advanced than "we put some epoxy on a USB stick")