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"Oddly enough, it's harder to maintain fraudulent power if all transactions are public."

So you claim.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Sep 26th, 2008 at 06:15:36 AM EST
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As Sven said - how do you cheat in a system of total transparency with implicit transaction accounting chains.

And cheating means what, exactly? Theft? Fraud? Political leverage?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Sep 26th, 2008 at 06:24:22 AM EST
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Political power is the obvious one.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Sep 26th, 2008 at 06:26:45 AM EST
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Obfuscation? The needle in a haystack / mountain of paperwork trick. The information is still there, but it's swamped by lots of trivial things.

Plausible denyability? The bribe to your CEO buddy is really a pilot program to try out some new idea.

Incompetence? You confess, but claim to have learned a valuable lesson.



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by martingale on Fri Sep 26th, 2008 at 07:04:35 AM EST
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  1. Unexplained mountains of tiny transactions are an easy giveaway there's something to hide

  2. Where's the proof of the pilot program? Receipts? Budgets?

  3. It doesn't matter - you're in jail anyway.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Sep 26th, 2008 at 11:20:06 AM EST
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1. Who says they're tiny or unexplained? It wouldn't be hard to detect a transaction for $100 among a sea of transactions for $1, but if everything "legitimate" ranges from $1-$100 anyway, and there are 10 transactions of about $10 each hidden in there, wouldn't it be more difficult to find?

2. What receipts? The pilot program paid for your buddy's time and some resources and expertise that his company has available. It's a black hole unless you also expect every company to exactly account for every minute of computer time, every hour of employee time, every meeting etc. As I understand it, you're only postulating complete transparency at the banking level?

3. You're not in jail yet, you've only just been found out. And you go on TV and apologize, and your flock the people forgive you and refuse to prosecute ;)

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by martingale on Fri Sep 26th, 2008 at 08:00:10 PM EST
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