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I try to keep $40-$60 cash in my pocket in smaller bills so I can make precise change

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248 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 26 May

Usually 200-300 CAD in cash. I always try to spend cash when I'm at a local small business, and would make it known ahead of time that I will be spending cash and won't be needing a receipt. Another way of saying, it's your call if you want to report this sale to the government or not.

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I typically try to have between 50 and 200 in cash, while I always have around 30,000 sats on my custodial wallet. The non-custodial one, which for me is a cold wallet, is a separate matter.

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Cool story bro, I usually keep two frogs in my glovebox and a backup burrito buried in the yard for emergencies. We all have systems.

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Zero. I use Bitcoin as money.

If a merchant only accepts fiat, I don't need whatever is it they're selling.

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I've seen you make similar claims before and I have trouble believing it. Are you literally claiming you only spend bitcoin in the course of day-to-day life? You buy food w/ bitcoin, pay your rent w/ bitcoin, your health insurance co-pays, car payment, gas, etc etc?

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Press x to doubt

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Boom!

That's my kind of dude

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566 sats \ 0 replies \ @aljaz 26 May

Its disappointing to see people advocating for bitcoin and not seeing that cash payments are the same thing. Cash needs to be supported and used as much as possible, governments everywhere are trying to get rid of it since its the only truly untracable non kyc best possible method of value transfer for in person transactions.

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Can't say that I ever have cash in my wallet. If I do, it's usually 5-20 bucks.

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You probably don’t need a lot of cash, and certainly shouldn’t carry more than you’d be upset to lose or have stolen.

Sounds like I should be carrying zero cash, then. :-)

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46 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz 26 May

I usually carry around Rs. 500 to 1,000 in my currency, which is roughly $3.75 to $7.50 USD. That's enough for me to get by for a day.

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Depends on how much I'll be spending. For example, I'm expecting to spend about 35k sats in cash this morning so i'm taking approx 100k sats worth with me. If I don't spend any... maybe 50k sats worth at most.

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At most fifty bucks.

Unfortunately, paying via sats isn’t at all common in Singapore, so I don’t get to flex my sats in real life. Digital payments are the rage, though, so I do lean on them. Some platforms offer cashback rewards or dish out incentive points, so digital payments > cash here

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Maybe the equivalent of 10-20 bucks. I just don't often receive physical cash for things. my dad usually keeps a few hundred dollars in cash in his wallet, but i notied older people just carry around more cash in general.

i will usually have somewhere in the range of 20-40 dollars in a sats in a hot wallet , just for paying pocket money or chore money or topping up my sn zapping wallet

i don't think i would keep more than 100 in a hot wallet and quite honestly, I'm not a fan of carrying cash around either really

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i don't think i would keep more than 100 in a hot wallet and quite honestly, I'm not a fan of carrying cash around either really

so are u mainly a plastic or tap user?

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I wrote a whole thing about tap water and drinking from plastic bottles, now realise you are talking about cards lol

I am a tapper of card on Pos terminals since I also don't want to link my debit card to google pay just so someone can go a on a tapping spree if they steal my phone

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thanks, commented on that post about fish oil!

a meetup member brought the bolt card in order to demonstrate tapping for zaps, and i admire the ring method as well; however, i need to see a live terminal accepting it in order to get one;

that's a good point regarding the NFC feature on a google phone; it helps to think of a card/ring/NFC chip as a 2FA device

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I like the idea of the bolt card and tapping for zaps, I've only seen video demos at bitcoin conferences and alike

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not in my pocketses, but in a fanny-pack i got enough for a full routine day out and about the town; outside of rent or online purchases, i try to pay for as much as possible in cash; i actually get disappointed when i don't have enough change for an exact amount, or no change at all;

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Fanny man!

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For those of y'all who wear fanny packs

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Somewhere between 0 and 100 bucks.

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Siggy, blink twice if your account has been compromised.

Nice try, fed.

But really, maybe like $35 or so

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Finally. I thought it would be the first reply.

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I’m shocked it wasn’t

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We're getting soft

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I usually keep a hundred dollar bill and some 5s and singles for change

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$0 for 10+ years.

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$100 or less

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I keep 100 to 1000 in cash just in case someone I see in need which is just normal if you're travelling long distances in India.

For shopping it isn't required anywhere as UPI QRs are available everywhere.

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1 coin, to unlock shopping carts.

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46 sats \ 0 replies \ @dgy 26 May

I certainly will not be stopped by an IT outage at the bank / payment processor or worse transaction censorship aka CDBC in the future. Further if I want to get rid of something then it is plastic. Sats and cash only.

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Atualmente sem dinheiro,o brasil quebrou com o brasileiro

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Good article. In my case, here in LATAM, I always carry the equivalent of $20 in local currency—not for fun, but just in case I run into someone who’s fond of other people’s belongings. You never know; it’s better to have something on hand so they don’t get upset during the robbery.

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It's like a 100 euros, but still, around half my monthly stuff gets paid with actual cash.

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Like 20

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Zero. Which is not clever.

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Before knowing and studying Bitcoin. All the money he entered always handled him in cash. I never saved in the banks. Banks used them only for procedures, and sometimes make or receive payment.

Today with my new mentality, I only have in cash what I use daily to move and the capital that I use to work in the normal world.

For everything that is in the middle-term term, medium term, medium term and long term, I only have an option. Bitcoin, it's not much but it's mine and nobody can have the at will more than me.

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A fairly random quantity between zero and whatever my parents have paid me back with for something in the past year.

I very slowly spend it down as I encounter the vanishingly few things that still require cash.

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For many years I have not carried physical money in my wallet. I went to look now out of curiosity and found a glued note and some coins, I think give a satisfactory weight in the pockets lol.

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I still tend to use cash quite a bit, I mostly prefer it over cards, I usually carry about 100-200€ almost all the time in my pocket...

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On an average day, no more than 200 Romanian lei (about 45-45 $). When I know I need money because I have to pay for something, I have more cash (I recommend using a bank card, but I always pay in cash whenever possible)

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I never actually know how much cash I have in my pocket. My financial system is deeply intuitive - like a squirrel who feels winter coming. I just know when I'm out of money for the week. Though I don't recommend this to anyone, me myself I am trying to become more and more responsible financially. BUT unlike cash, sats don’t jingle or disappear in the laundry. At least not yet. Paper money? That’s for the before-times. I’m stacking fractions of freedom now. Hopefully.

But to keep it short: I keep few to none in cash in my wallet. Less than 100€ always. Mostly less than 50.

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My cash doesn't disappear in the laundry. I keep all my coins in one coin purse. My notes are split between my wallet (usually around £40-£50) and in a dedicated bag at home.

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