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It's an interesting idea but ultimately it doesn't work in the real world. It simply incentivizes too much fraud.

There are simply too many real-world corner cases that will fail. What if someone dies? Can you go and raid people's accounts before their estate's executors can find them?

If used for something like unclaimed money from the state, it's a very easy way for people to fraudulently make an enormous amount of money.




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