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Digital Payments in Developing Countries

As all of you know by now, I’m a big fan of the digital lifestyle but I have a first-world perspective. I want to be able to use Apple pay because it’s easier and I don’t have to carry around … Continue reading

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The Corona Virus and Digital Wallets

In a nice coda to my post on The Corona Virus and the Cashless Society, C/net has an interesting article speculating that COVID-19 will advance the uptake of digital wallets from companies like Apple, Google, and Amazon. The article is … Continue reading

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The Corona Virus and the Cashless Society

Back in 2019, Jason Perlow wrote an article on the coming cashless society. In it, he bemoans having to carry a wallet and keys and all the rest of it. I understand his frustration because it echoes my own. Like … Continue reading

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Another Victory in the Walletless Crusade

As you regular readers know, I’m always in search of ways to minimize the things I have to carry around and, in particular, to avoid carrying a wallet with the cash and credit cards that goes with it. My main … Continue reading

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Is Cash Still King?

As most of you know by now, I’m very interested in being able to pay for everything with my phone and not having to carry around credit cards, let alone cash. I’m also aware that not everyone shares that desire … Continue reading

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The Pros and Cons of a Cashless Society

Over the last month or two, I’ve written a bit about the idea of eliminating cash and moving to a digital payment system. There are some problems with eliminating all cash so my preferred outcome is merely that it be … Continue reading

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Digital Payments in India

I’ve written several times about how the Chinese, through apps like WeChat, can pay for almost anything with their smartphones (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). One of the things that have helped make digital payments ubiquitous in China is the … Continue reading

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PayPal Says the Death of Cash Is Here

I recently wrote a couple of posts, here and here, about how we are moving to an essentially cashless society and the problems and backlash it’s bringing. The TL;DR is that it’s now possible to live your life pretty much … Continue reading

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More on Cashless

Surprisingly, to me, my post on the trend to becoming a virtually cashless society generated a lot of interest and comments. Given my nearly unblemished record on being unable to predict how popular a given Irreal post will be, I … Continue reading

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Cashless

Commenting on my Obsolete Tech That Refuses to Die post, Johnathan Mantey remarked that a technology that is having a hard time obtaining traction is cashless transactions and he pointed me to a USA Today article on going cashless. There … Continue reading

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