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Hacker News
February 28, 2026
In the United States, we are losing our fondness for cash. As in many other
countries, cards and other types of electronic payments now dominate everyday
commerce. To some, this is a loss. Cash represented a certain freedom from
intermediation, a comforting simplicity, that you just don't get from Visa.
It's funny to consider, then, how cash is in fact quite amenable to automation.
Even Benjamin Franklin's face on a piece of paper can feel like a mere proxy
for a database transaction. How different from "e-cash" is cash itself, when
it starts and ends its lifecycle through automation?
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Originally published on Hacker News on 2/28/2026