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To elaborate, the customer's liability on unauthorized charges is capped by law on card transactions, so the merchant has to eat the cost of the alleged fraud or the cost of disputing the alleged fraud (plus the cost of the alleged fraud because their dispute will almost certainly fail).

Moving the cost of fraud to the buyer will change the buyer's behavior in a way that the seller wouldn't want, so this is just one more cryptocurrency solution in search of a problem.



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