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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by zdragnar on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @07:24PM (#30435872)
No need for scare quotes; it was (still is?) a real thing. My local rural grocery store has had a hard time getting coins for making change basically since covid started.
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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by adamrezich on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @07:57PM (#30436156)
they aren't scare quotes, we just never got a good explanation for why there was a shortage, aside from some vague hand-waving about covid.
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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by zdragnar on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @08:16PM (#30436306)
A super quick search on google reveals two causes:

- The US mint slowed production to protect workers

- The shutdowns slowed circulation of existing coins

Given that a large percentage of coins are irredeemably damaged or lost each year (I once knew a particularly spoiled college student who would simply throw change away rather than deal with keeping them) it doesnt seem like much explanation is owed beyond that.

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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by adamrezich on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @08:36PM (#30436456)
and all of this right as the Federal Reserve is looking at making a digital dollar, what're the odds
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