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內容簡介 數位時代的貨幣戰，金融與科技的大亨遊戲新冠疫情加速多元數位支付的發展，無現金社會對誰有利，對誰不利？現金終結就意味著隱私終結？雲貨幣的未來將比預期更早到來？財經記者史考特深入全球金融體系背後，揭發反現金遊說機制早已經存在。他說明各種形式貨幣之間的技術、政治與文化差異，數十年來現金體系遭受的攻擊，以及銀行和科技業如何以進步之名聯手發動反現金戰爭。'A wonderfully revolutionary text' - YANIS VAROUFAKISThe 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 natural and inevitable is actually the work of powerful interests. And the great battle of our time is for ownership of the digital footprints that make up our lives.Cloudmoney tells a revelatory story about how the fusion of big finance and tech requires physical cash to be replaced by digital money underpinned by the banking sector, 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. He reveals the technical, political and cultural differences between our different 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 frontlines of a war for our wallets that is also about our freedom. From marketing strategies against cash, to the weaponization of Covid-19 to advance fintech platforms, and 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?"
