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Is it worth stockpiling cash as phsyical currency makes comeback in Poland?

While the trend towards the complete digitalisation of payments prevailed not long ago, today central banks and governments say that physical money may prove indispensable in crisis situations.

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00:01Polish finance minister Andrzej Domanski has recently advised Pols to keep cash at home in case of digital failures.
00:09We asked Warsaw residents how they feel about this and whether they keep a cash reserve for emergencies.
00:30For example, when we travel and there are no other options, we often only have a lot of cash.
00:37I think that we need to have a card and money.
00:41Because, as I can imagine, we are in some places where someone is buying a card.
00:46Or we are buying.
00:48We are under pressure that we don't have to pay even back to buy a ticket.
00:55I have a feeling that the preparation is the first one.
01:00And the second one is a card and something on the record.
01:04Because for ordinary people, everything can be done.
01:09The war, the crisis in the world, and without preparation is a tragedy.
01:14Meanwhile, the European Union is rolling out the idea of a digital Euro,
01:19which could help reduce dependence on American payment processes.
01:22We are not in Europe, but the Euro is a certain order.
01:28I don't know how banks will help with this.
01:32I mean, how they will solve it.
01:34I think that this crisis is so good that it is good if we are independent of these big companies.
01:42After the pandemic and amid ongoing wars, cyber attacks and blackouts,
01:46more and more people prefer to hold cash in their hands rather than keep it in the digital cloud.
01:51definitely not Internet.
01:54The
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