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Legal tender refers to the settling of debts, not carrying out exchange. If you owe a debt, and offer physical currency, the legal tender status absolves the debt. The creditor can still refuse the cash, but the debt is absolved whether they do or not. In the case of retail, before the goods are sold there’s no debt obligation, and so legal tender laws do not apply.
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I believe so. Whatever is owed, I think the legal tender concept would apply to it. So the difference I see is before the transaction vs after the transaction. For example, if an online website refuses to offer a certain service for cash, I'm not sure we can do anything against that. But once the service *has been* rendered and they come for payment, no matter what the agreement was ("card only", etc), I don't think they'd be able to refuse cash. They might refuse further transactions though; I think. I love what that Gentleman did. But I'm personally more a fan of building a network of (local and online) people to deal with, outside of the Grid/Matrix. Like Texas Slim was saying : shake a rancher's hand :-)