I feel incredibly privileged to be alive to witness this unprecedented and historic act by the Danish Chamber of Commerce. As an advocate of a cashless society this ground-breaking news is exactly what I have been aching to see for a very long time. What we are witnessing in Denmark is the harbinger of the end of cash in that country and elsewhere, whenever other nation-states follow their example of staggered cash bans in selected retail sectors.

When nothing less than the Chamber of Commerce in Denmark, which represents the nation's retailers, actively lobbies the Danish parliament on behalf of their members to ban cash in selected retail outlets as a preliminary, short-term provision with similar, evolving, broader actions planned in future. You inexorably come to the realisation that the modern world has arrived at the tipping point of the death of cash in modern society. Make no mistake about this article from Denmark. This is the sociological or symbolic end of notes and coins. It is the coup de gras for cash.