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by unsigner 970 days ago
Eastern Europe. slowly transition to digital payments, with two trends working against that: - it seems payment fees for small merchants are such as they lose money on small purchases (e.g. 2-5 EUR). So some of them require or prefer cash. - the anti-vax / anti-5G / chemtrails / anti-Western conspiracy swamp which is slowly rising around us, part of Putin's hybrid war, has chosen cash as one of their banners (along with resisting adoption of the Euro)