That sounds really sad - hope it never comes to it! I used to pay everything by debit card, now i make an effort to use cash whenever possible

That sounds horrible

I'll be #zapping my grandkids via eye-based biometrics tbh. Don't know about you

This is also an issue that some Bitcoiners are looking at from the wrong angle. They are almost celebrating a cash-free society even though the development in this direction is detrimental to their own interests. Cash means freedom. As this is the case, it has been severely restricted in some count...

In Scandinavia there's homeless people who receive donations via app. They will just make apps for every use case unfortunately, so if everyone owns a smartphone anyway from the age of 6, this line of argumentation against cashless will fall on deaf ears with many people. To be clear, I'm firmly o...

Maybe some kind of middle ground between a dystopian cashless society and offline analogue cash can be achieved with GNU Taler? https://taler.net/en/index.html

Have you heard about Monero? It's what most people refer to when they talk about digital cash.

well said

Keep paying cash! I mostly avoid the places that don't even accept it, but it sucks when more and more places in the city seem to go along... and mostly they have some naive teenager working there looking all glazed when I point out that by law they should accept cash.. As a useful tip. I carry muc...

Oh, and pay cash so you can... https://m.primal.net/IpJx.jpg 🎓

One correction, I don't think there will be banks. It's just one central authority like the FED.

Buhbye cuck bucks

at least you can print ecash tokens and put those in birthday cards

And this is a distinguishing factor between cards and Bitcoin. People often don't get that before they start using Bitcoin. And with e-cash, privacy is even better than with physical cash.

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So true. And why most people don get it is beyond me...

We gotta do everything we can to build privacy layers on BTC!

its inevitable - unstoppable

this doesn't mention the "active" control the government will have on your cash: controlling who, when and for what you can spend

Cross posted on IG. Got these... https://i.nostr.build/oM5MQ.png https://i.nostr.build/BRWRe.png How is a cashless society not imminent? Does USA Today mean for everyone but the west? So it would be thinly disintegrated into nothing instead? Gee... that sounds fun.

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/06/21/why-going-cashless-has-turned-sweden-from-one-of-the-safest-countries-into-a-high-crime-nation/