Cash is no longer part of the “real” economy

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There is no connection between cash and the real economy any more. We are in the era of “rump cash”.

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Who cares what is or isn’t legal tender?

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I don’t know why people in the virtual currency community focus on making digital money “legal tender”. Many people don’t know what it means and it really doesn’t matter anyway.

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The British cash gap

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Central banks and criminals are colluding to grow the shadow economy, which seems mad to me, because the seigniorage income from the circulating medium of exchange is a fraction of the tax gap it stimulates. Surely we should have a plan to do something about this?

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Private money and privacy money

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The relationship between payments and anonymity (which we can label “cash” for short) is far more complicated than it appears. If you ask people whether they want anonymity in payments, they are very likely to say yes, but that’s because they haven’t really thought about it.

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Revolutions start with the middle class

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The middle class don’t think that paying their builder or nanny or gardener in cash is a crime. But it is. And, just for the record, I pay mine using FPS. We need to change this attitude to start the revolution.

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Cash hits the excluded

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There are good reasons for providing electronic payment systems to the less formal parts of the economy, for people who deserve better than cash.

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Business owners and cash

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Legal businesses want electronic payments. No two ways about it.

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Social and financial capital crossover

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The crossover point where the transactional use of social capital makes economic sense is falling to the point where it replaces notes and coins.

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