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Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
Audiobook8 hours

Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

Written by Brett Scott

Narrated by Coleman Pedigo

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About this audiobook

The reach of Corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater; many of us rarely use cash these days. But what we’re told is a natural and inevitable move is actually the work of powerful interests. And the great battle of our time is the battle for ownership of the digital footprints that make up our lives.

In Cloudmoney, 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. 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. It asks the most pressing questions:

Who benefits from a cashless society and who gets left behind?

Is the end of cash the end of true privacy?

And is our cloudmoney future closer than we think it is?


Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperAudio
Release dateJul 5, 2022
ISBN9780063214927
Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
Author

Brett Scott

Brett Scott is a journalist, campaigner and the author of The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money (Pluto, 2013). He writes for publications such as the Guardian, New Scientist, Wired Magazine and CNN. He is a Senior Fellow of the Finance Innovation Lab, he helps facilitate a course on power and design at the University of the Arts London, and facilitates workshops on alternative finance with The London School of Financial Arts.

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    I wish Id understand the depth of the ideas further, but the idea's are easily understandable and eye opening. Is the fusion the end of humanity? Is technology an alien taking over? ANXIETY levels through the roof.