The End of Cash: Dropping the penny was just the beginning as the Canadian Mint seeks digital future With the penny gone and the triumph of plastic over paper bills only months away, the research and development department of the Royal Canadian Mint has proposed going one step further: the death of hard currency altogether.
Crazy talk!
Yeah this is just tiny bit of a terrifying idea to me. At least with paper money we can hold onto the idea of money....
really don’t know how I feel about this at all but it’s not positive. Call me the skeptic with her life savings in cash...
this is a stupid idea
talking about this over...weekend. Canada is positioned to basically drop hard currency...
Interesting read. Another...closer to simply having a chip or barcode planted in/on us.
A cashless society for major economies opens way too many privacy...security concerns for...