TIL that it's illegal to not have a bank account in at least Spain and Denmark 🤯

The Russian law is exactly opposite of this (I just checked to be sure). You are entitled to get paid in cash if you so desire.

@grishka yes, the EU is pretty crazy in this regard. In my book, refusing to accept cash in an offline store or a cafe should be illegal (cash money is still money), but it's a very common practice here in NL and people seem fine with it (and even make fun of Germans where some places refuse to accept cards).

After moving here I couldn't get my bank account open for a whole month, so I had to only use cash, and it was so infuriating when I just couldn't go to some places because of this.