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Not really. You can insist on retail vendors accepting legal tender by law, but these things are online, and online it means every payment can and _will_ be tracked. As with everything you do in public, online payments can and _will_ be used against you (in the labor marketplace, in court, in... everything, to control you and your habits). More people will accept or insist on policing of your and their habits than people who will resist it.


>You can insist on retail vendors accepting legal tender by law

That's a common misconception. In most jurisdictions retailers can set their own payment policies.


The point is to demand that they be legally required to accept legal tender.

It's a tremendous pain for retailers to accept cash, which is why they're willing to accept high transaction fees from online points of sale.


There is an interesting parallel to the code of Hammurabi, which specifies that certain vendors must accept payment in grain as well as silver.


"Legal tender" only applies to debt payments, not to retail transactions. A retailer can refuse cash.




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