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Thomas Willenbrink

Manche Parkhausbetreiber sind schon seltsam.
In Mainz läuft jetzt ein Parkhaus unter neuer Regie. Immerhin hat man nach vielen Jahren #Cash only und dann Cash oder girocard inzwischen die Zahlungsmethoden erweitert.
Mittlerweile findet man dort drei Logos: #girocard, #VPay und #Mastercard.
Und nein, das #Visa-Logo fehlt nicht nur, sondern Visa-Karten funktionieren dort tatsächlich nicht. 🤦🏼‍♂️
Immerhin habe ich jetzt mal wieder einen Use Case für meine Curve Mastercard. (1/2)

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Strypey

Ah, here it is, in the text of the report;

"The Bank of England and HM
Treasury note in their 2023 Consultation Paper that a digital pound would not be anonymous
because, 'just like bank accounts, the ability to identify and verify users is necessary to prevent
financial crime'.”

Chapter 2.1, Enhancing the Privacy
of a Digital Pound

dci.mit.edu/enhancing-the-priv

So what they're contemplating is only as private as a bank transfer, not as private as cash.

MIT Digital Currency InitiativeEnhancing the Privacy of a Digital Pound — MIT Digital Currency Initiative
#cash#anonymity
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Mx Verda

UK politics, social security / benefit payments, mh--, semi-suicide threat, but also stubborn enough to live just to spite the wannabe-tories

... ok so these fuckers really ARE trying to kill us.

disabilityrightsuk.org/news/gr

relevant af youtube.com/watch?v=e9ROtVQt98

I'm so close to the fucking edge this year.

I got a 1 kg bag of tapioca pearls for boba tea to make cheaper at home so I can still have a treat. Saw the price tag and was like "hmmm. *Do* I want / deserve an easy sweet treat I can add nutrient powder to as needed and sip for hydration?"
I got it in the end, but everyone deserves nice things. Yes, even the people you hate. Even the asshole down the street. Maybe if they got nice things and felt nicer, they might be kinder to people around them, idfk.

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peachfront

Quote of the morning coffee: "Norway’s former justice and emergencies minister Emilie Mehl put it in clear terms: “If no one pays with cash and no one accepts cash, cash will no longer be a real emergency solution once the crisis is upon us.”

i agree with this 100% & remind people
to PLEASE refuse to shop at places like Whole Foods that won't take cash... Bezos & the trackable society Is Not Your Friend

theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · Back to cash: life without money in your pocket is not the utopia Sweden hopedBy Miranda Bryant
#Politics#Cash#Cashless
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Paco Hope #resist

They are coming to enshittify money. Fight for cash. Don’t let them take it away.

Cash represents money that doesn’t cost money to use. It is a public good. All people can use cash There is no public good electronic transaction. (In the UK bank-to-bank transfers are free and easy by law. No reason to have Zelle or Venmo, not so in the US) We must protect cash.

Public libraries bother digital publishers because someone can read the book without paying for it. Cash bothers banks and big tech companies because you can spend it without paying them. Banks, credit card companies, and big tech (think ApplePay. SamsungPay, etc), want to charge you money for you to use your money. They also get transaction data that they can monetise in various ways (selling to you, selling the data, etc).

I experienced this last week. In the US it’s still free to deposit a paper check, but virtually any “wire” or electronic transfer has a fee. I signed a home equity line of credit and I was getting some proceeds. I had 2 options: “electronic check” or wire transfer. Wire transfer costs $20. “Electronic check” was free.

“Electronic check” is when they email me a PDF and I print it. Then, I take photographs of the printout with my bank’s mobile app for depositing checks. Takes more than a day to clear, but totally free.

Don’t let them take cash away. Fight for it. Use it some so people can see it being used.
#cash #cashless #money

theguardian.com/money/2025/mar

The Guardian · ‘A fundamental right’: UK high street chains and restaurants challenged over refusal to accept cashBy Jon Ungoed-Thomas
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Martin Pigeon

When the disappearing of #cash becomes a national security risk.

"Last year Norway, which has a popular equivalent to Swish called Vipps MobilePay, brought in legislation that means retailers can be fined or sanctioned if they will not accept cash. The government has also recommended that citizens “keep some cash on hand due to the vulnerabilities of digital payment solutions to cyber-attacks”."

theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · Back to cash: life without money in your pocket is not the utopia Sweden hopedBy Miranda Bryant
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