Easier to manipulate the currency and amounts if its all digital.

or is it possible that they forced you to use credit card so they could track everything you buy?

This is withdrawals from tellers only, they're just trying to push people to ATMs so they don't have to employ as many tellers. More apt title would be we're being moved to a robotic economy.

So that's why Bitcoin has almost doubled in the last couple weeks.

Cashless societies are needed for negative interest rates at banks, this is the most important issue of a democracy because it allows for a forced unavoidable private tax by banks onto society.