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Obligatory Neuromancer (1984) reference:

His total assets were quickly converted to New Yen, a fat sheaf of the old paper currency that circulated endlessly through the closed circuit of the world's black markets like the seashells of the Trobriand islanders. It was difficult to transact legitimate business with cash in the Sprawl; in Japan, it was already illegal.

I am fairly convinced that using cash will slowly be labeled as a "criminal" activity and gradually shamed into non-use by regular people.



> I am fairly convinced that using cash will slowly be labeled as a "criminal" activity and gradually shamed into non-use by regular people.

Of course. The only people who need cash are criminals and terrorists. Now move along citizen.


Sorry, my comment was too vaguely written, but I meant to imply that it won't be the government that does this, but regular people enforcing social norms.

"We aren't the kind of people that use cash," and so forth.


> The only people who

There have been political groups spreading and promoting exactly that concept.

"Thieves and junkies", they say. Forgetting completely "people with dignity" - also because that image is fading from aggregate memory.


That would not work at all in many countries. There are some with a strong attachment to cash.


Well to be fair, in my country (Denmark), that is mostly the case. For normal purchases, using cash is very much not the norm.

But paying a carpenter, cleaner or similar, who will give a lower rate (and not pay income tax and VAT), that is very much the norm (though socially frowned upon). Also drugs I guess.


demand for bitcoin will keep climbing.




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