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https://substack.com/@vieshalewand/note/c-175965103

CASH DIES IN 847 DAYS

Europe just legislated the end of financial freedom and nobody noticed.

January 2027: Every euro above €10,000 becomes illegal tender. Every Bitcoin needs government permission. Every transaction becomes a datapoint in Brussels’ surveillance grid.

This is not proposed. This is law.

340 million Europeans will wake up in a cage built from their own bank accounts.

THE KILL SHOT

The EU Anti-Money Laundering package doesn’t just track criminals. It treats every citizen as one. Starting 2027, buying a car in cash becomes a crime. Sending €1,001 in Bitcoin without state approval triggers prosecution. Anonymous wallets vanish overnight.

The Digital Euro arrives 2029. The European Central Bank spent €1.3 billion building what they call freedom. But leaked proposals cap holdings at €3,000 per person. Every purchase tracked. Every pattern analyzed. Every dissent potentially bankable.

THE LIE THEY’RE SELLING

“This stops money laundering.” Europe launders €500 billion yearly, they claim. So they’re building a panopticon for 340 million people to catch the fraction who commit crimes.

China’s digital yuan already programs money to expire, to restrict, to control. The ECB promises Europe will be different.

They promised deposit safety in Cyprus too. Then they seized accounts in 2013.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

Privacy coins migrate to the shadows. Black markets replace grey ones. The state gains omniscience. You lose the right to buy bread without permission.

This isn’t about crime. It’s about power. €20 trillion flows through the eurozone. Every cent will soon require approval from Frankfurt.

The infrastructure of tyranny gets built in the name of safety. Always.

THE CLOCK IS RUNNING

847 days until your cash becomes contraband. 1,308 days until the Digital Euro launches. Zero days of mainstream coverage asking the only question that matters:

Who decides what you’re allowed to buy when money becomes permission?

The European Union just made Orwell an instruction manual.

I have been using more cash lately, just to avoid credit card fees. In fact I'm going to switch dentists because of this as well.

https://tdefender.substack.com/p/chd-appeal-after-court-rules-against-woman-sued-national-park-service-no-cash-policy

CHD to Appeal After Court Rules Against Woman Who Sued National Park Service Over No-Cash Policy

Toby Stover, who sued the National Park Service after it refused to allow her to pay cash to enter a national park site, plans to appeal after a federal judge on Dec. 3 dismissed her case.

Attorney Ray Flores said he will appeal after a federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit against the National Park Service, alleging the federal agency is in violation of U.S. law by refusing to accept U.S. currency as entry payment.

Flores filed the suit on March 6, 2024, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, on behalf of Toby Stover and two other plaintiffs. Children’s Health Defense (CHD) funded the suit. He said he was disappointed in the court’s decision to dismiss the complaint.

“On the other hand, the Court did not rule on the merits of the case, which would have set an unfavorable precedent.”

In its dismissal, the court said Stover lacked standing to sue the park system — meaning she didn’t have the legal right to bring the suit because she didn’t show that she was “suffering an ongoing injury” or faced an “immediate threat of injury.”

The court initially dismissed all three plaintiffs’ claims, but allowed them to submit an amended complaint, which Stover alone did on March 4, 2025.

Stover tried to visit the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site national park in Hyde Park in January 2024. Park officials turned her away when she tried to use a $10 bill to pay her entrance fee.

According to the amended complaint, “Stover still wants to visit Hyde Park whenever she wants but will not do so if she continues to be denied her right to tender anything other than legal U.S. Currency.”

Now, nearly 30 national parks, historic sites and monuments deny entrance to those who try to pay with cash, the amended complaint said. The park service Cashless Fee Collection FAQ states that it accepts only credit, debit and other electronic forms of payment, such as Apple Pay.

According to the complaint, federal statute (U.S. Code Title 31, Section 5103) makes it clear that “United States coins and currency … are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues.” ...

Plus, the impact of a cashless society goes far beyond just a single purchase, because cashless payments limit a person’s “ability to be free from tracking and surveillance, which is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid,” Mack Rosenberg said.

Booger says

The tap one I use my phone. They can't get the card number, it's encrypted. They need to hold me at phone point to ever use my phone tap, which would likely be an armed robbery. The phone has to be open. The swiper scanners are much easier for fraud. I also get an immediate push notification IF I somehow got scammed and would start a dispute in under a minute and it goes away.

The quoted video would get useless scrambled garbage that they'd have to figure out how to unencoded on the tap scanner. Likely not happening. Waiting for it, but what about restaurants? Even sit down ones usually take it. When you pay cash at those places who is to say the server is not comping some food and taking your cash that the owner doesn't get?

There's no safe way to pay, but there are safer ways. I think the phone tap is the safest because it requires your own ID or code to work.

https://appfrontier.com/blog/how-contactless-payments-work-nfc-technology-explained

Sure, electronic payments help stop robberies, but make everyone far more subject to arbitrary government control.

The government gets:

1. to know what you bought
2. to know where you are right now, and send police to your location
3. the ability to stop your purchase for political reasons

It's creates an extreme danger of absolute technocratic control, something much worse than the threat of robbery.

The left will use this power to suppress dissent.

And anyway, electronic payments actually facilitate certain kinds of robbery, as the video shows.

Booger says

Lol, it was almost certainly the store owners themselves who installed the skimmer.