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Cash is the only means of payment that enables direct in-person payments w/immediate settlement &w/out involvement of any 3rd party or use of electronic equipment.

In many regions people are being forced to patronize banks. This community is for that discussion regardless of which side of the war on cash you are on.

The war on cash is war on privacy. (indeed the mod is biased)

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!climate_action_individual@slrpnk.net
!fightforprivacy@feddit.ch
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Cashless money society, forced banking 💳, and the War on Cash 💰 !cash@slrpnk.net
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New Topic RetroFed Forum Forum Index » Cashless money society, forced banking 💳, and the War on Cash 💰
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Sticky: Penalties and fees in Europe for using cash. Crowd-source costs imposed on consumers in this thread. 0 activistPnk 3 »
If you want to help banks profit, avoid paper cheques 11 ciferecaNinjo 4 »
How paper cheques are critically important to our human right to autonomy. Belgians will lose this right soon. 2 ciferecaNinjo 6 »
Governments are refusing cash on the basis of cost. Penny-pinching is the excuse for violating your human right to autonomy. There is a fix (www.dynatouch.com) 0 activistPnk 10 »
For privacy, sit on your ATM cash for ~6+ months before spending it (slrpnk.net) 18 activistPnk 22 »
Cannot buy tickets for a Bob Dylan concert without cloud access 4 activistPnk 8 »
US Treasury might print banknotes for $250 with Trump’s face to stoke his ego. Yikes! (www.bbc.com) 16 activistPnk 59 »
KYC is becoming: know your customer’s customers. FSFE’s payment provider “Nexi” canceled them w/out notice for not sharing info about donors (yes, in a GDPR region) (fsfe.org) 3 activistPnk 20 »
Recent Swiss referendum included question about cash (www.theregister.com) 1 Chewie 3 »
you can pay cash to take a bus and ferry to the UK, but how do you pay the travel authorisation fee (£16)? 0 ciferecaNinjo 5 »
🇧🇪(Belgium) KBC has just become a shit bank by joining the ATM cartel. Are there any “decent” banks left in Belgium? (belgae.social) 0 ciferecaNinjo 4 »
KYC should be redefined as UYC (undignify your customer); and AML should become ASDA (anti-self-determination and autonomy) 0 activistPnk 3 »
EU: “You cannot be charged a fee for paying by card, but you can be charged a fee for paying in cash.” No worries about marginlising Americans who face discrimination by banks. (www.fiserv.com) 0 activistPnk 4 »
(Belgium) ❝Only banked people may submit a case to the appeals court❞. No bank account? → fair trial ineligable (lemmy.sdf.org) 0 ciferecaNinjo 3 »
(Belgium, 2026) Money will be withheld from unbanked pensioners and those on disability unless they can explain **why** they cannot open a bank account (www.rtbf.be) 0 ciferecaNinjo 3 »
A cop driving next to you VS. banking (with AI policing) 0 activistPnk 2 »
The Dutch ATM shit-show spreads to Belgium (fedia.io) 0 ciferecaNinjo 2 »
(FI- and perhaps worldwide) Banks are becoming like Britney Spears’ dad (lemmy.sdf.org) 0 activistPnk 2 »
(EU) Cannot satisfy bank’s KYC interrogation -- it’s only reachable in their app (lemmy.sdf.org) 0 ciferecaNinjo 1 »
Netherlands: “only people with bank cards may cross this canal” (slrpnk.net) 0 activistPnk 2 »
As monopolistic ATM cartels drive out ATM diversity and competition, the EU wants to limit shops from offering cashback above €50 (eur-lex.europa.eu) 0 ciferecaNinjo 1 »
Albert Hein removed their ATMs and Spar discontinued cash back service. Plz bring a basket of goods to the cashier then abandon it. 0 ciferecaNinjo 1 »
62.2% of online payment fraud cases in Belgium were not remedied because financial institutions refuse participation in ADR (dispute resolution) (www.ombudsfin.be) 0 ciferecaNinjo 2 »
privacy tip: when you pull money from the wall (🏧), every banknote’s serial number is recorded in your name. Time to consider separating your tracked cash from your anonymous cash. (netzpolitik.org) 0 activistPnk 4 »
Can Albania really become a cashless economy? (www.dw.com) 0 activistPnk 1 »
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About this forum

Cash is the only means of payment that enables direct in-person payments w/immediate settlement &w/out involvement of any 3rd party or use of electronic equipment.

In many regions people are being forced to patronize banks. This community is for that discussion regardless of which side of the war on cash you are on.

The war on cash is war on privacy. (indeed the mod is biased)

related communities (decentralized only)

closely related:
☠ !cashless_society@nano.garden (ghost node) ← only reachable from instances that federated to that community before nano.garden disappeared

loosely related:
!offgrid@slrpnk.net
!climate_action_individual@slrpnk.net
!fightforprivacy@feddit.ch
!personalfinance@sopuli.xyz
!right_to_unplug@sopuli.xyz

1 members · 58 topics · 55 posts
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