Cloudmoney (Harper Business)
Friday, 29 July 2022

In this book, subtitled "Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets", Brett Scott tells an urgent and revelatory story about how the fusion of Big Finance and Big Tech requires “cloudmoney”—digital money underpinned by the banking sector—to replace physical cash. He dives beneath the surface of the global financial system to uncover a long-established lobbying infrastructure: an alliance of partners waging a covert war on cash.

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He explains the technical, political, and cultural differences between our various forms of money and shows how the cash system has been under attack for decades, as banking and tech companies promote a cashless society under the banner of progress.

Cloudmoney takes us to the front lines of a war for our wallets that is also about our freedom, from marketing strategies against cash to the weaponization of COVID-19 to push fintech platforms, and from there to the rise of the cryptocurrency rebels and fringe groups pushing back.

Author: Brett Scott
Publisher: Harper Business
Date: July 2022
Pages: 304
ISBN: 978-0062936318
Print: ‎ 006293631X
Kindle: ‎ B09HSBDLKG
Audience: General
Level: Introductory
Category:General interest 

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