Isn't medium.com just a glorified blog disguised as a news outlet?
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2025
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You're overthinking it, digital IDs are being pushed for surveillance reasons.
People bartered and exchanged goods long before the concept of money existed. Nearly everyone would just revert to that over violence.
A government can only abolish its own cash. If people really want to use cash, they'll just swap to another country's currency. See all the countries in the world where locals accept the dollar because it's more reliable than their local currency
