They are not anti-cash machines. We have to maintain cash. Maya, you are absolutely right. Merchants are getting fed up with the bankers getting a huge percent per transaction. By requiring merchants to either to accept cash or have one of these conversion machines that does not charge customers a fee and does not collect personal data, we have hope that we can keep cash as an option. Think about what happens if the grid goes down e.g. what happened in North Carolina.
