Funny, I was just reading an article about WIRED's startup of the week, Velocity, an app pushing for transactionless restaurants, kind of the same way Uber takes the payment step out of cabs. (ie, you still pay, but it's not a big process.)
BBC focuses on BTC, but maybe apps are the best path to the death of cash.
Of course you never truly get rid of an anonymous fungible medium of exchange. There were a surge in Tide detergent thefts starting a few years back, to use it as a currency.
BBC focuses on BTC, but maybe apps are the best path to the death of cash.
Of course you never truly get rid of an anonymous fungible medium of exchange. There were a surge in Tide detergent thefts starting a few years back, to use it as a currency.
1. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/24/startup-of-th...
2. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/why-are-...
3. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-tide-black-market-2013-1?...
4. http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/