# Cost of cash

`kaal:entity:cost-of-cash`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `cost-of-cash`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 2 works, 2019 to 2019.

**2019**

- [3402701-006](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3402701-006) [empirical/evidenced] -- Transacting in cash imposes large measurable costs: roughly 200 billion dollars annually in the United States, about 637 dollars per person, driven by counting, managing, storing, transporting, guarding and accounting for bank notes.
  > In the United States, transacting in cash costs the consumer around 200 billion dollars annually - about $637 per person
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vadhindran K. Rao, Stable Cryptocurrencies - First Order Principles (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3402701
- [3406323-016](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-016) [empirical/evidenced] -- Transacting in cash costs United States consumers roughly 200 billion dollars annually, about 637 dollars per person, driven by counting, managing, storing, transporting, guarding, and accounting for bank notes.
  > In the United States, transacting in cash costs the consumer around 200 billion dollars annually - about $637 per person.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323
- [3406323-017](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-017) [empirical/evidenced] -- The poor and those with less access to institutions bear a disproportionate share of the costs of using cash.
  > Several studies demonstrate that the poor and those with less access to institutions bear a disproportionate share of these costs of using cash.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323

## Verify

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