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Now, I have noticed more and more that people prefer electronic payment over cash because of covid, and even offer a discount if the payment is made with electronic money, including bitcoin.
Wait.
I know what you meant in the above sentence, but that sent me a shiver down the spine.
There is a big difference between electronic payments and bitcoin.
Bitcoin is digital cash, something you cannot forget on the XII whitepaper anniversary:(Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System).
Cash means anonymous, peer-to-peer mean of payment:
Other digital payments, from Credit Cards to the hypothetical CBDC are not peer to peer, that is not cash. All those payments involve a third party, who exactly knows how, when and how much you spent your (their) money.
So, please, don't mix bitcoin with Orwellian surveillance systems. Bitcoin is digital cash, as opposed to physical cash.