Quote from: af_newbie on March 20, 2019, 11:30:40 AM

Quote from: bitwise_ranger on March 20, 2019, 10:32:54 AM

"Fuelled in no small part by the increased adoption of alternatives such as cryptocurrency, it seems undeniable that the world is moving closer each day to becoming a globally cashless society."

https://stadivm.com/blog/sweden-cashless-by-2023/

Without cash, it will be hard to finance bribes and other criminal activities. Z-cash anyone?

Eh, people have been wiring money from some super weird accounts all over the world for decades now. People would find a way around this,greed is hell of a drug.

Quote from: KennyR on March 20, 2019, 01:16:37 PM

Sweden being a small country with 11-12 million of population coming up with the plan to stop using cash and go completely onto digital payments is possible. Also the deadline is years away from the present day. Within this if the government plan in the right way they can easily implement the same serving as a model to the rest of the world countries.

Without a doubt true, makes it a lot easier to work with a country that is filled with mostly similar people that is very small. Geography is pretty close to the same. In a country like America, where you have about 350m or so people -- and there's no way this would work in a nation like the US (this quickly)

Quote from: Mbitr on March 20, 2019, 07:54:04 PM

I believe most if not all countries would like to be cashless. Cashless does not mean FIATless though. Digital banking will increase and card use will increase. Cryptocurrency will not take over from fiat any time soon and is pretty irrelevant to most countries.
My 2 satoshis if that matters.

+1

A country won't simply give up their economic control, people seem to forget that. Banks, politicans, etc will continue to hold their strangle.