@socksy The way Ame Elliot explained it:

- The individual feels tipping helps with social equality.
- Can't tip if paying with a credit card;
- Cash is not popular;
- App provides a sure-fire way of tipping;
- User feels app is more ethical.

If you can't grok it, you're not alone. She also said Europeans might have a harder time comprehending that scenario.

Around 7' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3fY3Zm306U

#leastauthority #privacy #privacyforeveryone

“In San Francisco, I met people who believe they have no alternative but using things like the Starbucks app, because they believe in #socialequality”

Hadn’t I heard it in person, and hadn’t she said it twice, I’d have thought that was generated by a Markov chain.

Speaker referred to (e.g.) cases where people believe in tipping, but can’t do it through any other mechanism than using an app.

#privacyforeveryone

“Bitcoin - it’s like Twitter for your debit card!”

#privacyforeveryone #zcash

“Fighting data privacy infringement as a service” is a startup idea from the #privacyforeveryone panel on Germany’s GDPR, given the infringement fees involved. 😂

“Why is it an argument that if we sustain civil liberties you don’t know how to run a business?”

- Rick Falkvinge on #privacy and #copyright

#privacyforeveryone

#Zcash’s Zooko: “#Privacy is decentralized control over the dissemination of information”

#privacyforeveryone #berlin