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Digital/Physical Monies

Lhasa: view from the monastery roof
 

Monk counting donations at the end of the day – the notes are tucked into, and placed on religious artifacts by worshippers. We can design systems on the assumption that all transactions are digital, in which contexts is the physical is preferred?

Thought for today: physical artifacts representing value in contexts and communities that have only ever known the digital.