Fair point - if you're not using digital payments, you should make the effort to get used to them. Cash is (mostly) going away. (This article also contains a guide to getting started with digital.)
Cash is dead. Why are we still pretending it isn’t?
Some (qualified) better news on the forced cashless society:
Cash Access UK (set up by the major banks) has committed to have opened 100 community banking hubs by the end of the year. This hubs offer joint services across the constituent banks.
It remains to be seen whether this deal with some of the companies about lack of banking services (including access to cash)... and from a local point of view, when one turns up in the Lune Valley's banking desert.
Following a massive crash during Bitcoin’s downfall, the BCH price trend faces a small hiccup in its recovery phase. With an evening star kickstarting a
Just out of curiosity: Would it technically possible to use #Taler#GNUTaler with a chip card? So that it cannot only be used for online transactions, but also to pay a #coffee?
I ask, because I was very disappointed by #vegan restaurant in #Berlin the other day. #Pizza was OK, but they do not accept #cash. In fact, the waiter took my money and they paid my bill using their card. Maybe Taler could be used for that use case in the future?
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Apart from the fact that #anarchists are mentally different and not fixated on #capital, the content of this article is exciting:
«How a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity. Once, #drug dealers and #money launderers saw #cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable.
JUST OVER A DECADE AGO, #Bitcoin appeared to many of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist holy grail: truly #private#digital#cash for the #Internet.»
Sure, it costs businesses money to deal with cash, but it always has. Isn't making customers pay extra for a cost that should already be priced into product or service delivery double dipping?
What we really should be talking about is how companies like banks are mining transaction #data and usin g it to profile people #SurveillanceCapitalism
#cash is still less traceable than card, and I am tired of being tracked and surveilled digitally.
I am appalled this is the thinking of the #RBA - it's clear whose interests they are serving.
Despite #banks best attempts to get us to all use cards (so they can skim off their fees), the #costoflivingcrisis continues to drive people back to #cash as a way fo controlling budgets.
In the last years the decline in the use of coins & notes has reversed (albeit not massively), with more shoppers buying goods with ready cash.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out in relation to Labour's policy of an expansion of #bankinghubs to deal with banking deserts' cash availability issue.
They would also be introducing an open payment system for all rail services by the 4th quarter in 2025.
Prasarana also clarified that My50 travel pass, which is only available to #Malaysian, can be purchased at all rail #stations using #cash or #QRPay, or at key #bus hubs using cash.
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New research makes it possible to calculate the emissions generated by a company’s #cash and #investments (cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities). This research illuminates that this previously #HiddenEmissions source is substantial. For some of the world’s largest companies, including #Alphabet, #Meta, #Microsoft, and #Salesforce, their cash and investments are their largest source of #emissions.
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