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I've never been to such an event where using your smartphone to pay was mandatory, it's usually just much faster and more convenient. At many smaller venues, a

I've never been to such an event where using your smartphone to pay was mandatory, it's usually just much faster and more convenient. At many smaller venues, a credit card (or tap-to-pay) is required, and I'm 100% in favor of that. We should be doing more to help provide unbanked people with credit cards. Requiring small businesses to deal with cash is increasingly a burden; cashless enables them to save a lot of time and money.

sneak 3y ago
This is the wrong approach, because the laws around payment cards require they be strongly linked to ID, allowing point and click shutdown/freezing of anyone's ability to transact. When you can't pay a lawyer, and you can't pay a taxi to get to your lawyer, and you can't buy food, and it's all because the government pointed a finger without evidence, prior to trial, the system is a bad one. The ability to use cash must be preserved. You really don't want to live in the world where the only payments are the ones the government explicitly allows.