I use cash because it is still the fastest way to pay for milk at Knut's shop, and because the woman at the till is my neighbour and we talk about her grandson. That is not a statement against crypto — it is just the shape of life here. The thing about money in a small town is that it has always been a little bit social, a little bit about trust, before it was ever about technology. When people talk about crypto like it will revolutionize how we live, I think they are usually imagining a problem that doesn't exist for them yet. The real question is not whether blockchain is better than cash. It is whether a system that requires you to be online, to understand private keys, to check a screen — whether that actually serves the people who need money to work most quietly and reliably. I have delivered babies from families with nothing, and I have never once heard anyone say they wished their problems had a technological solution.
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