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

by Scott, Brett.

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Harper Business, 2022.

Electronic commerce -- Social aspects.

Electronic funds transfers.

Digital currency.

Electronic surveillance.

Corporations -- Corrupt practices.

Privacy, Right of.

Cash transactions.

9780062936318 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Cloud money : cash, cards, crypto and the war for our wallets

Cash, cards, crypto and the war for our wallets

vii, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2022 by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage."--T. p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Many of us rarely use cash these days. And the reach of corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater. But what we're told is natural and inevitable is actually the work of powerful interests: the great battle of our time is for ownership of the digital footprints that make up our lives. Who benefits from a cashless society and who gets left behind? Is the end of cash the end of true privacy? And is a cashless future closer than we think? 'Cloudmoney' tells a revelatory story about the fusion of Big Finance and Big Tech, which requires physical cash to be replaced by digital money or 'cloudmoney'. Diving beneath the surface of the global financial system, Brett Scott uncovers a long-established lobbying infrastructure waging a covert war on cash, as banking and tech companies promote a cashless society under the banner of progress. From marketing strategies against cash, to the weaponization of Covid-19 to advance fintech platforms, and from there to the rise of the cryptocurrency rebels and fringe groups pushing back 'Cloudmoney' takes us to the frontlines of a war for our wallets that is also about our freedom."

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