• birdcat@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    wow, so futuristic! but which part of i put cash from my hand int yours is not instant enough?

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      2 months ago

      The part where they say $x and you need to count it from you wallet, and then they need to recount. Possibly provide chance, oh no i am out of chance let me check with a colleague.

      But i absolutely hate how cash is dissapearing because its has additional used in familiar settings.

      Am i really supposed to give me child their allowance on a card? That means they need a phone with an app to check balance aswell. That wont be good for financial literacy for sure.

      When i visit my grandparents they often gave me some loose change so i could start “saving”

      They where not going to do the effort of opening some Corporate software to transfer 50c

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      2 months ago

      idk about you but i don’t carry around $10,000 cash… i do however carry around my phone, which (assuming someone has that) has access to transfer that, and more

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        2 months ago

        man if only some kind of “technology” existed to securely hand over big amounts of money, like maybe the cash could be “stored” somewhere, like in a “database” of some sorts, and we could then use some kind of “unique identifiers” and make like “transfers” in cases where the needed cash amount is so big that carrying it around makes us feel uncomfortable 🤔

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          2 months ago

          The problem with traditional bank transfers, at least in Switzerland, is that they are very much not instant and take up to 2 buisness days for non-buisnesses in switzerland. Therefore instant payements look like a nice alternative to our alternative to venmo here

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            2 months ago

            you’re absolutely correct… we’ve had this in australia for years and it changes the game tbh

            it was added with a system that integrates account details with phone numbers, email addresses, abns (australian business number), so you can pay to all these identifiers without bank details from any bank to any bank, and it’s instant

            the massive benefit of it being bank to bank rather than some shit 3rd party app is you’re much more protected against fraud, and there’s lots of insurance going on that you’re not aware of until something goes wrong

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            2 months ago

            got a point there, the twint TOS are straight up criminal, if this new system kills twint im in support of it.

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      2 months ago

      @birdcat @voidx When I want to buy 10 currency unit thing and I have only folds of 100 or 50 units. And shopkeeper also do not have lower folds. Also when amount is big.

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    2 months ago

    There are some frightening situations that are impacted by not having cash in a society. I don’t think of them all because they are largely to do with vulnerable and less privaledged people, but one that stuck with me was someone in an abusive relationship would benefit from being able to save cash for the moment they are able to escape. I suppose buying nasty sex shit is another.