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Cloudmoney, cash, cards, crypto, and the war for our wallets, Brett Scott

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Cloudmoney, cash, cards, crypto, and the war for our wallets, Brett Scott

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cloudmoney

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1333700904

Responsibility statement

Brett Scott

Sub title

cash, cards, crypto, and the war for our wallets

Summary

A monetary anthropologist examines how the drive to create a cashless digital money empire could lead to dire consequences for our civil liberties and create a dangerous nexus of Big Finance and Big Tech

Table Of Contents

The nervous system -- The war on cash -- The giant in the mountain -- Digital chips -- The bank-chip society -- Big Brother. Big Bouncer. Big Butler. -- The unnatural progress of a 'Rapidly Changing World' -- Shedding and re-skinning -- Sherlock Holmes and the strange case of the data ghost -- Clash of the Leviathans -- A paranormalist's guide to the spectre of Bitcoin -- The political tribes of Cyber-Kowloon -- Raiding the raiders

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Cloud money

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