Payments Are Going Digital, but Many Seniors Still Rely on Cash

Gift. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/health/elderly-cash-elect...

I believe the disconnect is that many don’t or can’t jump through the hoops required for cashless.

a) relationship with ATT/Verizon/major carrier to establish your phone number

b) relationship with Apple/Google to establish your MFA/passkey

c) then you can you use Apple Pay and banking apps on your mobile phone. (Does Google still have Google Pay?).

Google Pay still exists. It hasn't died per se, just bounced around a bunch of Google apps before the core functionality got subsumed into what is now Google Wallet. There's an entire flowchart on Wikipedia it's that bad.

Some states require accepting cash.

https://yandex.com/search/touch/?text=states+with+law+must+a...

If they don't accept my cash that's their problem. not mine.

cash is agency and finality, it is an agreed, and immutable sum transferred from one person to another, no middlemen, no accrued fees for each node that has barged in between the two parties of a transaction.

digital transactions in the present state of shortcoming are, vampirism.

Many people that care about privacy.