Envelopes with cash are and will continue to be the method of use for the corrupt politicians, but they also hate when the people use cash to avoid taxes, this is why their agenda ahs been a very clear one: to kill cash, but to release a digital currency that's closed source for total control of the masses, while they would have access to this code through backdoors, in other words: the elite wanted a closed source currency in which they would do trades behind the curtains since they would be the only ones with access to the deep code. This was their ultimate dream, which died when bitcoin was released and busted their mind control Orwellian bubble. Now they hate bitcoin because it is an alternative to their closed source, centralized, federated hell.
They already have fiat money as in non-cash which pretty much counts as a closed-source digital currency. Public doesn't know who pays whom via bank transfers but the government can trace every transaction made by anyone using the local currency unless cash as in coins and bills is used. In this manner, I don't think that their "ultimate dream" has actually died because it is not a dream to begin with, and it definitely ain't gonna die any time soon.
Cash is still being the best way if you want to make anonymous payments. Do you agree with it?
Also 85% of transactions are currently in cash.
What do you think about cash on blockchain, backed by gold (
https://goldencurrency.world )?
Anonymity in terms of what ? I mean whether it is payment made to black market for buying drugs, alcohol, hemp or whatever thing those people do for $$$$ or whether it is about the payment in general where you dont want to show publicly where you spend money? In both the cases cash can be tracked by some means. The banks, FBI, or regulatory bodies can tackle transactions very easily by using their tools and techniques. So its no wonder blunder that wether they are using the cash. Cash is not miracle which can not be tracked. Bitcoin however can provide some sort of pseudo anonymous nature and thus make it far good than the cash. At least it can keep everything in the public ledger with private keys and can just show from which address the transaction is being done but it cant tell your identity. So its still anonymous.
Cash is bills and coins, but what you refer to in your post is correctly called non-cash money.