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This is not the megathread, this is the street. In four days I have seen at Bazar-i Kalan: three stalls with a printed sticker "TLPR here", one boy trying to pay for a melon with his phone (melon man said "show me the melon in your phone"), and an argument at the bread counter that lasted longer than the bread. Post what you see in shops. NO phone numbers, NO wallet codes, NO screenshots of anybody's account.

Two passengers this week asked to pay in coin. I said cash also accepted, cash especially accepted, coin not accepted. One showed me he has "104 coins = 6 dollars". I asked: so give me 6 dollars. He said he cannot, it is in the coin. So he has 6 dollars that are not dollars. He paid in som. Everyone pays in som in the end.

Talasbank stopped card payments to the coin thing this week. Colleague tried to top up with his Talasbank card, "transaction declined". He thought his salary was gone. His salary is fine. His dream of becoming Ilyasov is declined.

Correct, and both things are true at once: the Bank of Irad said on the 24th it is not legal tender and also that it has no power to ban it. So a shopkeeper can take it if he likes, and nobody has to. If your melon man refuses, he is within his rights. If he accepts, he is also within his rights, and his own risk.

Not shilling (I know, I know, the new rule). Just saying the kebab place by the Hippodrome takes it and nobody died. That's all. Peaceful exchange between consenting adults.

Coin shilling is against the rules since the 24th. One more "just saying" and it's probation. No names of shops either, from anyone. This thread is about what people see, not where to spend it.

Understood.

The kebab place by the Hippodrome took it on Saturday and stopped on Monday. The owner told me the coin went down while the kebab was still on the grill. He lost money on a single kebab. Akyel or nothing, and som or nothing.

Nurzhan: one shop on our street has a sticker, crossed out with a marker by Tuesday. Bakery joke I posted in the bread thread: pay in coin if the coin rises in the oven. It did not rise.

My husband registered for the 100 free coins. I asked with what. He said with his phone number. I made him sit on the sofa for a long talk. The kids watched. Now the kids are asking me if the government knows our phone. I said the government has always known our phone, now Jason also knows.

Students keep showing me the coin app like a pass. "I have 100!" 100 of what. Tündük: still som, cash, card, napkin. Napkin rate stable since 2023.

site and exchange both dead since this morning on attelkom. the boys on my floor are refreshing the app. it shows a spinning tulpar. the tulpar spins. it doesn't fly

After the block, nobody asked me to pay in coin. Not one. Three days ago it was the future. Today it is a spinning horse.

As the Bank of Irad wisely said on 24 September, it is not legal tender. Citizens should use the som. Have a nice day.

Strange to agree with him. It happens to every horse once. Then you check its teeth.

Court today: no injunction, adjourned to 16 November. At the bazaar: the TLPR stickers are mostly gone. One stall left. He says he keeps it "until November, for the court". My aunt says she keeps hers too. Hers says "CASH ALSO ACCEPTED", since 2023. Some signs last.

the free tea for couriers happened again yesterday at the stall, three years. no one tried to pay for the tea in coin. tea is free. free is the only thing that's not a trap

Forum moves to the new software today. This thread comes with it. Nobody knows what happens in November. Keep posting what you see, not what you guess.

Even the horse casino site has it: Ilyasov wants to pay Semiz in Tulparcoin. ¡No mames! Pay the players in tortillas, at least you can eat them.

The Times asked the people who actually run Toktogul about the coin's "water backing": nobody has heard of it. VPN needed since tonight. Hearing is 16 November.

Been a while. Reading this thread from the driver's seat (red light, not moving).

One passenger on the 31 this week, Old City side, showed me his phone. 100 free coins, he says. Wanted to pay the fare with it. I said pass the money forward. He said it IS money. I said the bank says it is not money. He said the bank also says the som is 8.40. Then he paid in som and got off at Alatau Heights. Nobody in the back passed anything forward, everybody was looking at the window.

Coin cannot be passed forward. No hands. Seats are a theory, but hands are a fact.

There are ten drivers on the 31. All my cousins. I asked nine of them. Zero take coin. The tenth did not answer, he is the one with the Tulpar sticker, and that sticker is for taxi, not for us.

Route_31_Driver posted:

Coin cannot be passed forward. No hands.

This is the best argument against it so far, and the court has not heard it.

Good to see you here, by the way. Come to the stall some time, I think the aunt remembers your face. She remembers every driver who does not pay for the tea. (Couriers drink free, drivers pay. She is fair. She is also strict.)

Still the same one stall at the bazaar with the sticker. Today he told me "until November". Everyone is waiting for the 16th. Meanwhile my aunt's sign: CASH ALSO ACCEPTED. Cash especially.