Well, of course not. The silver content of an actually silver coin would be worth dozens of times the coin's face value. The U.S. Mint will sell you five real silver quarters, minted for 2025. It'll only cost you $95. They are legal tender for 25 cents each, but people aren't going to be handing those out in change.

> I still see cash and coin, but I haven't seen an actual silver coin in the wild for at least thirty years now.

I blame our grandfathers who routinely scanned for silver and tossed them into a jar at home. :-)

Depending on jurisdiction, establishments are sometimes being forced to accept cash, to not exclude the under banked.

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I still use cash from time to time, and I am not under banked. In fact, I used cash on Saturday to buy gas for my mower, and I always use cash to buy gas for my car. Never have to worry about my card being compromised. Or anyone knowing what I'm buying when I use cash.

> Will all the panhandlers start accepted Venmo?

This might be tough on hookers

You laugh, but I've seen buskers with signs with their Venmo. Probably not too long before we start seeing panhandlers taking Apple Pay.

It's bullshit to be forced to accept cash if you don't want to. There's a lot of expense and liability involved that most people don't even think about. Cash can be counterfeited and stolen, and mitigating that isn't free. What's next, being forced to accept checks?

I likewise know of some businesses who only accept cash. Explanations aren't owed either. If you don't like it, then buy from somewhere else.

If being "unbanked" is the problem, then it sounds like having electronic transactions that don't require

> Yeah I am curious about that. What percent of retail and fast food customers are using cash, credit card, and phone pay?

Two years ago my neighborhood gas station lost its internet connection. I dug the "emergency $20s" out of my wallet to prepay the pump. I would do the same at a favorite food truck or corner restaurant. Rather than go somewhere else. Did I mention I am old? Or does having a few emergency $20s in my wallet already indicate that? :-) FWIW it's the only cash in my wallet.

I can recall reading about how drug dealers would use laundry detergent than cash for payment.

I don't recall all the logic behind laundry detergent but it had something to do with keeping the police from confiscating what they got in payment for drugs. How much is a bottle of detergent worth? Anywhere from $5 to $25 depending on the size? Maybe $40 for the really big bottles? There's nothing illegal about having laundry detergent, and once they made their sales on drugs they can turn those bottles of de

How do minors (children and teens not yet old enough for a bank account in their own name) pay for things in Sweden?

Apple Pay doesn't share your card details.

1. The ApplePay system is more secure because you have to initiate the payment. Nobody can just walk up and press a payment terminal up to your card.

2. Additionally, the ApplePay system uses a rotating number in the background, so your real CC number is actually used (from what I understand)

3. In my own personal experience, the tap-to-pay system on my card is much less reliable than my phone or watch. I don't know why or how; it used to be better, but then I got a new card and now it's terrible.

I use my car

You can make much larger purchases with Apple Pay than with contactless.I bought my wife some jewellery with Apple Pay, and it worked just fine. With a card, I’d have had to revert to chip-and-pin which is a pain and less secure.

"Just use the bank card! "

The bank card doesn't scan your face and cannot be disabled from home when lost or stolen.

> Someone will have to explain the point of apple pay and whatever the google equivalent is. You spend all the time setting it up just to duplicate the functionality of the contactless bank card you already had. Ummmm... why??

Once upon a time banks offered temporary credit card numbers on their websites. Login, perhaps specify the parameters of use, here's an alias number for your real card. They were awesome online. Not only did they not expose your real number, but they bonded to the first user. So if some company got hacked the numbers wouldn't work elsewhere. You could have regular payments with limits to avoid surprises. Why is the HOA trying to charge $1,000 rather than $300?

Today Apple Pay can fulfill this role. And as

I use my phone, or my watch. I never have to get it from my wallet. It's vastly easier to use NFC. Literally tap my wrist against it, neat dinging noise, done.

I don't know what shit-for-brains moderated you insightful, but you're not.

The very fact that NFC payment methods are easier is exactly what is driving them.

Isn't that the same as losing a wallet? I do have physical credit cards, that I don't carry around. Let's say I were to lose my phone, I would buy a new one and restore everything to it.

> Good to know if your phone is lost/stolen/damaged you are shit out of luck.

That's why old farts carry a few emergency 20s. So they can get enough burritos and gasoline to get home in such an emergency. :-)

I can use my phone or my watch. Only have 1 wallet.

Good thing it can't be lost/stolen/damaged.

What the fuck struck you as intelligent about the comment you made?

So like losing your wallet only not as bad since you still have your ID card and public transport card?

Who is phasing out cash? Seems like the market itself is deciding this convenience. Your savings and money are just numbers in a database.

I see you're posting as AC. This means the troll filter is inserted in the signal path.

This is China not the United States. What elections?

As for petty snowflakes, it you get them either way. Both the R and the D politicians feel they're special and unique.

The political system in the USA B0rked. But will it be fixed? Heck no.

No problem using cash here in the UK. In fact I know of one cafe in east london than ONLY accepts cash. Yeah, probably a tax dodge but even so, your card or phone is no use there.

You ignore your own generation. Those who didn't grow up with trackers in their pockets none the less grew up with email inboxes full of spam and advertisements and guess what happened... nothing. The world has gone to absolute shit, there's few things I could care less about right now than some advertising fuck send me a promotional email because they know I bought milk and a dildo last week.

> I was thinking much the same. By having financial transactions be digital it is easier to track what people do and where they so, as well as "debank" someone for their politics.

It's a simple explanation. A group announces it's intention to commit crimes. You gave money to the group. The group committed the crime(s). Police investigate and see you funded a crime. Your account is frozen while an investigation happens.

The "persecute me harder daddy" crowd screams they're being picked on because of politics.

> I don't recall debanking being something practiced in the USA

Then you must not have followed FOSTA, a 2018 US law weakened the protections of Telecommunications Act section 230 with respect to sexually explicit material. This made it easier for acquiring banks to get away with debanking sellers of erotica.

Paying cash if there’s a power outage isn’t going to work in any store larger than a mom-and-pop anyway, because cash registers are powered and linked to POS systems that track transactions.

it was a clusterfuck but ended up being a fun day, not without valuable lessons indeed: people find a way around, pretty quickly, and humanity sometimes surprises you. if you have ever driven around in the dense and hostile jungle of barcelona's traffic you'll know what a depressing and unnerving experience it is. however without traffic lights and with the police completely overwhelmed (and virtually absent) the pure chaos magically worked out. people just did that, there was no need for police. everyone w

> With a flash of relief the cashier opens the cash draw only to be confronted with 25, 10 and 5 cent coins and a new seemingly impossible puzzle of how to choose the right coins to make up 90 cents....

While an amusing tale I'd expect someone so inexperienced in making change would simply ignore the quarters and nickles, focusing only on the dimes and pennies to make things simple on the math, then hand out nine dimes to make 90 cents in change. Who would complain about that? It can be explained trivially as running out of quarters.