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by giaour 1480 days ago
You can't buy a $1MM Amazon gift card. That would be incredibly useful for illegal activity but more or less useless as a gift card.

When financial instruments are primarily used for licit activity, we tend to add features that make illicit activity more difficult but accept that some illicit use will occur. That's why we still have $100 (but with serial numbers) and don't have bearer bonds any more.