Asians are already in the habit of using prepaid cards or tokens for many services including public transport and payphones.
Miners and lumberjacks could use the scrip at the company store--often the only store in town--or redeem the tokens for cash, at a steep 25% discount.
The trouble is that issuing tokens or using biometrics requires a device, and what service can afford to ship and maintain devices for its millions of users?
Since Intel IPT is embedded at chip-level, unlike hardware or phone-based tokens, it can enable more secure, yet user-friendly cloud access protection.
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On one of their regular offerings, based in North Carolina, participants are made to cycle, hike or kayak in pursuit of tokens they will then exchange for materials that can be used to make a boat.
It was agreed that a forecaster could offer a deterministic forecast if he or she wanted - but this strategy would risk winning or losing everything by dumping all the tokens into one bin.
Communities facing this problem have traditionally resorted to "scrip, " a money substitute in the form of tokens, certificates, even clamshells or buckskin to trade for goods.
The economic contribution of his essay is that it represents the thesis advanced by German economist Georg Friedrich Knapp in The State Theory of Money (1924), an expose advocating the Chartalist approach to monetary theory claiming that money must have no intrinsic value and strictly be used as tokens issued by the government, or fiat money.
Local firms have tried various methods, ranging from cash up-front and pre-paid tokens to fee-for-service or leasing.
Trade in relics arose in the Middle Ages, when Catholic pilgrims returned home from the Holy Land with tokens of the burial places of martyrs or of the martyrs themselves.
There are no faded flags or hand-painted signs of national unity, no simple tokens of remembrance.
Going forward, any app that needs more than 100, 000 tokens to do things like access the timeline, show DMs or anything else a client app might do will also need Twitter's permission to operate.
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