You are aware that many places don't accept cash, right?

Most EU countries require cash acceptance. There is also an EU-wide legislation in the works: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/theme-an-ec...

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vladvasiliu an hour ago | parent [-]

Here in France, many places won't take large bills. You can usually forget about paying with 100 € bills, and many will be iffy even about 50s.

I'm also pretty sure it's illegal to pay cash for anything above 1000 €.

I'm curious how this legislation will end up, because the reason to push for cashless is that you should think of the children^Wterrorists. And much of this push comes from the EU itself (see chatcontrol).

	▲	layer8 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> I'm also pretty sure it's illegal to pay cash for anything above 1000 €. The plans for harmonization are to have a limit of 10000 €. > the EU itself “The EU itself” isn’t a singular mind, it’s a forum with many participants and positions. In the end there needs to be a majority in the Parliament.

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IsTom 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't know about other countries, but in Poland you must accept cash except for a few cases (over internet, large transactions, places without employees).

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pjmlp 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In Jurassic Europe, most still do.

	▲	MonkeyClub an hour ago \| parent [-]
		And it’s good that they do. No cash means no freedom.

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kakacik 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well its about time (a decade ago) to ignore those places and be vocal about it.

Contactless is all fine and dandy but straight out refusal to handle cash is a big negative for the users, which is the only perspective anybody cares about. On top of obvious long term massive loss for society and personal freedom. Don't feed the actors that are harming you / us.

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tremon 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How does that affect the uptime of their wallet?

	▲	justauserid an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Well the data was up on the hard disk. Fault lies with the electricity and cables.