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Next, WoW gold.



next, money.

"I heard that this guy went to his dealer with some cash and walked away with some drugs leaving no paper trail whatsoever."


They're already trying to limit how much cash you're legally allowed to carry without having to explain yourself to a police officer in some states.

You don't need to make cash illegal though, you just have to make the alternatives really really attractive.


I think you're joking, but in some jurisdictions having large amounts of cash may be considered grounds for seizing it by the police. Sometimes this leads to abuse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenaha,_Texas#Police_seizures_s...


In The Sprawl trilogy, cash is almost never used for legitimate purchases. It's almost exclusively used for black/grey-market transactions.


You might not be that far off. Electronic payments are becoming the standard. Banks love electronic payments.


I'm assuming they can quite easily subpoena Blizzard to find out details of transactions if they have reasonable cause.


That's it, I'm moving all my savings over to EVE timecards. They'll never go after that, CCP has an economist on staff.




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