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Re:Open Source Visa/Mastercard Competitor: Zenobia Pay by dragonwriter on Thursday August 14, 2025 @03:15AM (#44897629)
> Legal tender has never been challenged in court to my knowledge

It was challenged and upheld, both as against debts before the the legal tender acts were passed and those after, by the Supreme Court in Knox v. Lee (1871).

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Re:Open Source Visa/Mastercard Competitor: Zenobia Pay by SJC_Hacker on Thursday August 14, 2025 @03:30AM (#44897718)
Yet the US government can refuse payments in cash

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/10/03/2017-21...

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Re:Open Source Visa/Mastercard Competitor: Zenobia Pay by ceejayoz on Thursday August 14, 2025 @03:55AM (#44897892)
Yes. Because a patent filing fee is not a debt.

(And because government can exempt itself from virtually anything not forbidden by the Constitution. This is why cops can break down your door, but I can't.)

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