> Pretty sure it's just Germany being pig-headed about it for some reason. That pig-headed reason being that Germany went trough two different repressive regim

> Pretty sure it's just Germany being pig-headed about it for some reason. That pig-headed reason being that Germany went trough two different repressive regime during the last century. Regimes that made plenty of use of large scale surveillance and data collections [0] to find a lot of their victims. That's why cash still reigns supreme in Germany; It's anonymous and third parties can't just remotely disable it by disabling your bank account. It's also the reason why Germans value their privacy, at least used to. [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Liste https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Liste