But don't carry over $1,000 in cash either because it can be seized without cause.

In which country?

USA. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

Does not see any reference to carrying more than 1000 dollars in the linked article. Note that you are allowed to travel to the USA with up to 10 000 USD in cash on you without declaring it, so if carrying more than 1000 USD was an issue they would put a hard limit on 1000 USD, not 10,000.

Civil forfeiture has nothing to do with carrying limits.

Rather, they permit officers to seize any amount they believe may have been involved in criminal activity.

Such as this[0] yesterday, which was less than $1000.

The complication is that the onus is on the owner: the money is guilty until proven innocent.

If an officer makes the assumption that you were on your way to buy drugs, they can seize the $100 in your wallet.

[0] https://streamable.com/3dvge

> Civil forfeiture has nothing to do with carrying limits.

I was commenting about this post:

> But don't carry over $1,000 in cash either because it can be seized without cause.

Which was clearly about a hypothetical 1000 USD limit.

The suggestion is that if you carry more than $1000, you are more likely to be targeted fir civil forfeiture.

Except if the cashless currency is on a decentralized blockchain ;-)

That only works if you have access to electronics, which homeless people might not.

Well, they can receive without electronics.

Why is this downvoted? That is true, people can receive credit cards that are backed by companies such as BitPay.

Don't you think controls can be forced upon ISPs?

ISPs are irrelevant for this. Unless they block all https connections etc.

And how are you going to block mesh networking, you can send bitcoins via QR code even.