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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cashless shops operating illegally in Netherlands & Belgium; corporate disobedience⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dank je wel!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cashless shops operating illegally in Netherlands & Belgium; corporate disobedience⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! Not only is this a great list of actions, but it also has helped me see this whole issue from a new perspective. More specifically, I multiple times I have tried to switch to cash-only because of privacy reasons, and I eventually become discouraged. For example, I recently gave up again. I have a shared card with my girlfriend, and she doesn’t really care much about privacy, so I felt like I was punishing myself for not good reason by paying with cash if my girlfriend next was going to pay with our card anyway.

  But now that you have framed it from the point of view of those accepting cash, it does give me an additional source of motivation. It’s not only about my personal privacy, but also about pressuring vendors to accept it. This makes it worth it even in cases where there might not be a privacy benefit. Starting now, attempt #I-lost-count begins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cashless shops operating illegally in Netherlands & Belgium; corporate disobedience⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right… Cash is king, and letting it be phased out is not a good idea.

  You have me on board - how do we stop this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cashless shops operating illegally in Netherlands & Belgium; corporate disobedience⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. I haven’t followed development in the space of “official” crypto currencies, but my impression is that these will probably be centralized, have little to no privacy features, and that the governments will be able to control access to the funds.

  But I may be wrong - maybe they are actually building decentralized crypto networks? I just find it hard to believe that a government would do this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cashless shops operating illegally in Netherlands & Belgium; corporate disobedience⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it is increasingly difficult to pay with cash in the Netherlands. Even at the Albert Heijn they have set it up such that it is a lot more convenient NOT to pay with cash. They have a large amount of self-service pin-only checkouts, and one or maybe two workers accepting cash at the manual checkout lane.

  One path is to make an effort to resist this digital move and pressure politicians so that they enforce these type of rules and that cash is accepted. But I think this can at best slow this process down.

  The other path is to embrace the digital move and start integrating crypto currencies into our societies in a more substantial manner. I know that many people have given up in crypto, but, putting speculation and hype aside, crypto is the best way we know of to integrate cash-like payments into the digital world. Right? Or is this something others disagree with?