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Re:VISA offers restaurants $10,000 to stop accepting cash by sliken on Saturday July 15, 2017 @03:53AM (#14775565)
That used to be true, but in the USA the new card systems are way slower. You have to insert the card, it's not clear when it needs inserted, it asks all the time. Then you have to leave it there for a good while, then it asks to sign.

Cash, or android pay is way quicker. Or if you can find one a chipless credit card.

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Re:VISA offers restaurants $10,000 to stop accepting cash by Animats on Saturday July 15, 2017 @02:31PM (#14778146)
Yes, that's "point of sale in the cloud". If they lose their network connection, they can't even accept cash.
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