36 U.S. Cities in 20 States "Abandon" the Dollar
 

Scary. :Oh crap

FULL STORY

Makes sense as it is expensive to take it.

It doesn't say what these people are being paid in. It is Euros, Bitcoin, what?

what kind of utter bullcrap is that???

i think that dude smoked too many dollar bills

So your thread title is misleading - they didn't "Abandon" the dollar, but are taking steps in that direction. That's a bit misleading.

I cannot see us being without cash. There are just too many places that do not accept cash. High school football games and flea markets come to mind - No way I want to swipe my card with people I don't know.

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Michael Robinson predicts that, as more U.S. cities take action to abandon the dollar, it will become clear this is the most important economic story happening in the world.

More of American's thinking they're the most important thing in the world. The ongoing financial crisis in Europe is of far greater international importance than a handful of tin pot US towns not wanting to be paid in cash.

What would Franck do?

That isn't a real news site. Everything is set up to sell info products.

Bitcoin. Watched the linked video.

http://pro.moneymappress.com/NVXBITCOIN2014/PNVXQ238/

lost all credibility instantly the second i figured out I was on a internet infomercial.

Might as well try selling me a slapchop, you're chances are higher and I might have spent more then 7 seconds on the site.

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Bit what ?

Funny pic, yet the subject is interesting.

Be very skeptical of any "news" article without a clear byline or a date attached to it.

This is a generic looking article designed, as someone else mentioned, to drum up sales of panic-based infoproducts.

I'll pass.

and they started to use bitcoins?

I did a few searches on it. It looks like the town in question in the article Vicco, Kentucky has about 350 people in it and it is the police chief that wants to be paid in bitcoins.

It is a risk seeing as bitcoins have lost about 20% of their value in the last couple of days.

the dollar has lost 38.5% of its value since 2002 because your government wanted it to.

its a guy trying to sell memberships to his site. No harm in that but it aint news.

WTF

you aren't supposed to out landers here

so not taking paper money is 'the abandonment of the dollar'?

why am i reading this as 'wanting to be paid electronically'

Epassporte payments :upsidedow... Cities in motion

I doubt there is any GFY poster who would even consider this story to be true. I did not read full story, nor replies, and best case scenario - they abandoned cash, not dollars. Worst case scenario - onion news.

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Or
http://i.imgur.com/EVFGAw9.jpg

What an awesome vanity article - Although they ignored the proven rule, "mention the buyer's name over 20 times" because they only mentioned his name 10 times in a 500 word article! That means that in some cases over 49 words went by without a mention of his name or his AMAZING credentials!

This guy is the real deal in terms of vanity journalists, or whatever he is. He makes the other big dollar-talking publicity hound Roubini look like he is standing still!

"In the 1990s he was one of five people involved in the early meetings for what would become the $160 billion "cloud computing"phenomenon."

ya whatever lol

Makes sense as it is expensive to take it.