For anyone who thinks physical bills (cash) is gone in 2063:

1. strippers. gona swipe her crack with your credstick? I think not.

2. the shadows. credsticks are electronic and have records. Its hard to do illegal, nefarious or just embarrassing things with a trail of records, and politicians are the biggest proponents of those three things.

In our games we also use "U-Plast" next to Cash (UCA$) an Idea that came up in the first Edition of sr (yes I am old, no snarky comments please). Our Version is some sort of "Underground Plastic Money" like a an MMO Gametime Cards, Gas or Energy Points Card or "Matrix Minutes Prepaid Cards", etc. Small, Easy to carry arround and if the Currency goes haywire a Month of Gametime or 30 cell plan minutes never loose their inherent usefullness.

The Advantage is that it is easy to understand and every Stuffer Shack has a Vendor for a few of these "prepaid giftcard" sort of things. Sure the transaction could be traced if one is actually used, but nobody can really tell how many hands the item went through. And your Cred Account only shows that you are a binge shopper when it comes to giftcards.

Corporate Scrip is very much a thing, but it doesn't crop up in the published adventures, since those are mostly convention missions that have a whole different design theory. It should crop up in home games more often, simply because it's fun. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Somewhere around here, I have a post that pulls some conversion rates out of the air and slaps 'em down, all unofficial-like.

I've used corporate scrip in the past, but generally only when I had a goal for it. Keeping track of it was always a bit more aggravation, so players liked to convert it into nuyen rather than have to deal with tracking different currencies.

If you want corp scrip to work, it needs to have a benefit. For example, I had a team get consistently paid in Ares corp scrip, which I convinced them was basically gift certificates to Weapons World. It also convinced them they were working for Ares, which in turn set them up for an elaborate betrayal; once they were fully equipped with Ares weapons, Ares armor, Ares cyber, and even a few Ares foci, they were caught on film destroying a hospital facility and were publicly declared to be an Ares funded terrorist team. Since Ares hadn't heard of them, they now had Ares gunning for them, their old employer gunning for them, and a bunch of bounty hunters gunning for them. Scrip was an important part of the plot, since they hadn't converted much of their earnings recently and had most of their wealth in Ares scrip... which they couldn't use without exposing themselves to Ares. It was probably the biggest screwover I ever pulled on a group, and we had a blast with it.

Oh I am so using that. The group has been lucky enough to have picked the good fixers who get decent Johnson's who don't have 'frag over 'runners' as part of the initial plan (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

The secret to fragging over the runners isn't to do it at every opportunity. Savor it and build up to a great big Frag You all at once. It's actually more fun for both the GM and the players that way.

I can't imagine Cash being removed from the economy entirely. I can imagine however that shops/stores in certain places have signs up saying "We do not accept paper bills"... much like some (abiet few) stores today say "We do not accept card".

Nah, it'd be more like checks. Lots of places don't accept checks, because they don't have a check verification system worth a damn. In the same vein, a place might not accept cash because they're not set up for it: they don't have a cash register, so they can't make change, or even have a secure place to keep the cash if they do take it.

Pretty much. The stores that cater to cash would be about the same ones as today, with pawn shops, payday loan offices, check cashing services, and other low-income-targeting operations. Popping down to the Ork Underground will find a lot of these places, for instance, and you'll find a ton of sellers that'll take cash in addition to, or even *instead* of, cred.