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I wonder what that would do to the illegal drug industry.

A lot of PayPal transactions whose notes field say "ebay: vintage photograph" or something else that can be legitimately expensive and small.

Barter, or elaborate e-laundering of transactions. Where there's a market there will be a way.

There was a story recently about the growing problem of theft of Tide laundry detergent, people paying drug dealers with stolen Tide detergent.

Did the drug dealer happen to be a laundry detergent distributor?

Bitcoin? If there's a need for something, people will find ways to circumvent laws and tools against it. In a completely cash-less world say 100 years from now, the Bitcoin we have now will seem like version 0.01 of the anonymous digital money we'd have then.

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