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I also wondered about this. I guess it involves their era's trending cryptographic standards implemented as an easy to carry local device with enough processing power. It's 200 years in the future, so that shouldn't be an issue.
It also made me laugh a bit when the video Supra et Ultra showed the Vanguard volunteer getting compensated with increasing amount of credits, shown as a pile of credsticks - it's all digital, so why bother piling up?
I suppose some in-game explanations are possible. If such devices have a "storage limit", then it simply becomes a math problem. Or, the UC being infatuated with regulations, they could have come up with rules like "multiples of standard fiscal unit (e.g. 1000) each stored in standard credit-storage devices are to be used as method of monetary compensation".