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The Wall Street Journal reports today that Philadelphia is the latest jurisdiction to pass a law against not accepting cash. Most retailers in the city must accept cash beginning in July. Democrats are leading the charge on these laws, viewing them as a way to protect people who don’t have credit or debit cards.

PHILADELPHIA JOINS NORTHEAST CASH COALITION



Philadelphia’s not alone in its war on cashless businesses.

New York City councilman Ritchie Torres admits that cashless payments are the future but is nevertheless backing a proposal requiring local businesses to accept cash. He told the Wall Street Journal:

“I think it’s more the future than a fad, and that’s why there is a need for a legislative response.”

Massachusetts and New Jersey have statewide laws relating to cashless stores. Massachusetts requires all stores to accept cash, while New Jersey simply bans cashless stores altogether.

The laws have a decidedly Luddite thrust to them – you must use this ancient form of money because we say so. It doesn’t matter if it’s less efficient or puts your business at risk. All the while, the rest of the world is increasingly moving in the opposite direction. Sweden is leading the way to a cashless future, with just 1% of its yearly transactions happening in cash.

That said, credit and debit cards have their own set of problems. Kroger plans to stop accepting Visa at many locations because the transactions were too costly on a macro level. Such situations create an opportunity for cryptocurrency, in an ethereal sense. Major businesses accepting cryptocurrency is still not a normality, and it may never be.

Source:

https://www.ccn.com/philadelphia-bans-cashless-businesses-bad-for-bitcoin

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Big News from Binance!

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Introducing Celer Network ($CELR) Token Sale on #Binance Launchpad

https://support.binance.com/hc/en-us/articles/360024537792
Binance is excited to announce the next project on Binance Launchpad - Celer Network (CELR). The CELR token sale will commence at 2019/03/19 2:00 PM (UTC) and will have one session, accepting BNB only.

Token Sale Details:

• Launchpad Session Time: 2019/03/19 2:00 PM (UTC) to 2019/03/24 2:00 PM (UTC)
  Token Name: Celer Token (CELR)
  Total Token Supply: 10,000,000,000 CELR
  Total Tokens Allocated to Binance Launchpad: 597,014,925 CELR
  Public Token Sale Price: 1 CELR = 0.0067 USD (Prices in BNB will be set on the day of the sale)
  Token Sale Format: First come first served basis
  Individual Cap: 1,500 USD Equivalent
  Supported Sessions: BNB only

While we were sleeping Bitcoin, Litecoin and Etherium have languished but not died. Many of the videos channels who used to be non stop crypto, like Jsnip and Clif High. They`re not talking too much any more. But Blockchain adoption has moved ahead by leaps and bounds!

The Ethereum blockchain after a number of security-related delays has managed to upgrade its blockchain network. According to The Ethereum blog, Constantinople and St Petersburg will be implemented onto the Ethereum blockchain when the system hits block 7,280,000. According to a Reddit page, just two hours ago from the time of writing, we are already currently 25 blocks into Constantinople. The online cryptocurrency community expressed a lot of gratitude and thanks to the Ethereum Developers who made this hard fork a reality. It looks like everything went smoothly and well.

While there are two updates, Constantinople is the main change to the Ethereum Network. St Petersburg simply an upgrade designed to disable a specific part within Constantinople's code. Earlier this year, Ethereum was to hard fork, but someone found a significant smart contract security flaw. St Petersburg is designed to disable the smart contract security issue.

Now for a quick overview, the Constantinople update will act as a "maintenance and optimization update," and will have its primary effect on Ethereum miners. So instead of three EThereum tokens per block, miners now receive two. A similar update has happened in the past during October 2017, where Byzantium, a previous fork had lowered the block rewards from five to three Ethereum tokens. The Constantinople fork also provides additional improvements to the EThereum blockchain's efficiency, speed, and energy consumption. If you guys are interested in understanding more concerning the Constantinople hard fork, make sure you watch this video from James.

https://electroneum.com/m1/