The various locdowns seem to have accelerated the trend towards electronic payments and away from cash. You can now pay for most things by tapping your phone. This inevitably means that cash payments will tend to gravitate at the 'dodgy' end of the economy, and making cash payments, and withdrawing large amounts of cash, will itself become suspect.
Combine this with rising punting prices, and it is starting to sometimes be logistically difficult to get hold of the necessary amount of cash. For instance, once a year I treat myself to a full evening duo with a couple of agency girls, which costs me the best part of 1800 - getting the cash for this requires about two weeks notice and planning, so that I can withdraw the necessary 300 per day from the cash machine. I then have to squirrel it away somewhere, transport it to the meet (1800 in tenners is fairly bulky) and I'm leaves a fairly obvious papertrail on my bank statements that would stand out to basic scrutiny.
Is the future cashless puniting? Will we have punting cards as well as punting phones - maybe those disposable Mastercards that you can buy with a certain balance, and reload if you wish? How many SPs offer card payments - I have only encountered one - and would you be happy with this extra level of electronic trail?