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I try to pay everything in cash as much as I can, so it's nice to see the banknotes get some love from the ECB (even though the absence of €1 and €2 banknotes s
by timpera 2mo ago
I try to pay everything in cash as much as I can, so it's nice to see the banknotes get some love from the ECB (even though the absence of €1 and €2 banknotes still hurts…).
I think it's a bit strange to feature people on these, plus it would be difficult to agree on who to feature between the 21 € states. The birds look cool! But it would have been nice to modernize the current architecture-based design rather than feature random EU office buildings.
- latexr 2mo ago> plus it would be difficult to agree on who to feature between the 21 € states. What do you mean? Clearly they did agree, which is why we have those design proposals. Those aren’t random people chosen by the designers, they were in the brief. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr250131~611055a567.en.html https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr2501...
- rationalist 2mo agoMe too, #NormalizeCash Cash is freedom.
- Cider9986 2mo agoCash is king.
- dzhiurgis 2mo agoThat’s not meant to be interpreted literally tho I wonder how much of cash transactions are actually legitimate. It’s usually drugs, illicit services or untaxed income. While I don’t like tax just as much as next guy, the blatant dodging of is what me. Sure there are few legit privacy freaks and some genuinely unbanked. But blending those into single pot makes it much worse as they are already associated with fringes of society.
- xorcist 2mo agoHow could it possibly be interpreted literally? Instating a monarchy with cash as regent? How would that work in daily life?
- curveuser 2mo ago#WhyNotBoth?
- tmtvl 2mo ago> absence of €1 and €2 banknotes The US style? I much prefer the Japanese style instead (where €5 would be a coin instead of a note). When our largest coin is too small to buy a drink at a vending machine we've got a problem. ATMs don't turn over €5 notes anyway, so their existence is painfully awkward.
- krick 2mo agoWhy, though? I'd much prefer not to carry any coins at all, ever since I gave up and stopped fighting the Big Brother (I applaud everyone who still does, but it just didn't seem like my struggle was productive). I mean, to think of it, coins never were very nice to use, I just wasn't bothered by it, because the volume of cash on me was quite significant anyway. Now it's not and I just don't carry any coins at all. Paper is so much nicer to handle. I still need to have some cash just in case, but I'd simply "forgive" any change below 1€ now. I don't feel rich enough to forgive everything below 5€ though.
- vel0city 2mo agoCoins are far more durable and usually easier for machines to properly sense. If you're using vending machines to buy drinks it's nice just dropping a coin or two into a machine and getting a beverage. Notes can get worn and fail to read properly by machines taking bills in the field. When you need like 5 of the most widely circulated coins for a single drink it gets annoying though. I miss seeing machines that would bend a 12oz can of soda for 25¢. Those were the days. I sometimes go to coin-op car washes, it sucks having to punch a fist full of quarters into the machine for a quick wash.
- YeGoblynQueenne 2mo agoWow, I had to dig this deep down the thread to find a comment that doesn't sound grumpy and offended. It's just banknotes. Honestly.