Australia's Pro-Bitcoin Policy Implemented
Australia's payment system going cashless
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The Australian government has introduced an economy-wide cash payment limit of $10,000 to keep dishonest tradies and businesses from rorting the system by taking cash in hand, as reported on news.com.au - Frank Chung. Their primary aim is to cut down cash payments to the use of less than 100 $100 notes to curb with the "black economy".
The "black economy" refers to undocumented payments mostly done in cash to avoid scrutiny of tax agencies. Cash payments provide an untraceable means of transactions, mainly unaccounted purchases. While many could see such a decision as a harsh one, it has done nothing good for smaller businesses and daily transactions.
“This will be bad news for criminal gangs, terrorists and those who are just trying to cheat on their tax or get a discount for letting someone else cheat on their tax,” Mr Morrison said in his Budget speech. “It’s not clever. It’s not OK. It’s a crime.”
Source: news.com.au - Frank Chung
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Shift toward electronic payment options
Australia's big step in promoting cashless payment follows suit of China's cashless revolution. Not only to combat counterfeit paper notes, China's Alipay and Wechat Pay are changing the way daily transactions are performed. Alipay and Tenpay dominate with 54 percent and 40 percent market share of mobile payments, respectively, as well as 30.7 percent and 22.2 percent of other online transactions in China (source: Post Magazine - Zigor Aldama).
Apple Pay and Goldman Sachs may be working toward creating an Apple Pay-branded credit card. Apple CEO Tim Cook earlier this year said, “I’m hoping that I’m still going to be alive to see the elimination of money,” as reported on ComputerWorld - Johnny Evans. As with electronic payments, cryptocurrency or not, blockchain may be the best solution in the future.
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Adoption of Bitcoin in Australia
Travelbybit.com is one of Australia's crypto payment platforms that accept Bitcoin, Litecoin and NEM (coming soon). Co-founder of Travel By Bit, Caleb Yeoh, said that their company has over 150 business signed up for crypto payments across Australia (source: news.com.au - Jason Murphy). The transparency of the blockchain is bringing transactions into a public ledger that assists governmental monitoring.
There are still conflicting views about transparency and privacy. Governments are expected to be as transparent as possible, whereas citizens want their privacy respected. In terms of monetary transactions, Bitcoin and other blockchain based technologies have varying levels of privacy. Monero, for example, is a cryptocurrency focused on the privacy of their transactions. There is hence a limit as to how much governments can monitor.
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first they take your guns.
then they take your electricity.
then they take your money
better hide your women and children.
I have nothing against any governmental bodies and I remain neutral toward Australia's policies implemented. The article is to report about new policies being implemented and does not take bias toward supporting or disagreeing with the government.
Best to take your slander somewhere else.
fine
I dont know maybe am wrong but cashless payment still can have many issues too!
from another perspective i think its a good news for bitcoin holders and crypto in general
Cash Works Without Electricity
and crypto does not. I'm saddened to see Australia causing problems for businesses and individuals who deal with large amounts of cash.
Criminals Don't Care About Gun or Cash Limits
so what is the motivation for Australia to put limits in place for their law abiding citizens? Someone is getting a payoff from this.
Watch Monero become overused by Australia now. ;)
I think these limits will not affect regular citizens that much. Businesses who make purchases of more than $10k in cash could benefit from the documentation of electronic payments. That will hopefully also better regulate tax filing and declarations.
True that the black market has no concerns on cash limits. Even with electronic payments, money can be laundered. Just be prepared to see lots of black market items selling at $9999. :)
Cashless is the future payment method I guess!
Yeah it is amazing,isn't it!
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Great news! They have an excellent argument for real world use of cryptos!
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