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 As nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6mpd4czuumfw3jsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvql3tqm said, it is truly baffling that governments and politicians don't use digital signatures to prove the authenticity of their announcements.

Even my fucking grocery store cryptographically signs every sales receipt. 
 They are above authentication obviously. 
 Really? Could you explain or show an example of a shop doing that? 
 Just look at any groceries receipt, there are pubkey sha and sig data on it. Many POS terminals are doing that by default. 
 Have you orangepilled your neighbors? 🤣🎩 
 Shocking indeed 
 And despite this, they want to venture forth with CBDCs! 
 Grocery stores are so based 
 "Our account was hacked. We would never say that." 
 They likely don’t even know it’s possible or what the benefits would be. 
 You can't expect this level of competence from a politician. 
 They will!  
 Because politics and accountability do not mix 
 The average politician is pretty low IQ, we can’t expect too much from them. All we can do is innovate faster than their comprehension 
 because it is forced to in order to pay taxes  
 Reasons why governments and politicians are reluctant to use digital signatures to prove their authenticity.
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 Me likey dis. 
 Well put 
 You can't have a puppet leader if you need the actual person to endorse everything that he supposedly says!   
 incredible indeed. but at least it wasn't announced with a fax. 
 Imagine these geezers using computers let alone signing cryptographically 
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