Monday, May 2, 2016

The Establishment Bastards Continue to Push Toward a Cashless Society

Government and banksters want to track every move we make.

Leading the way in this effort is a San Francisco-based firm called Chain (as in let's put everyone in chains!)

Chain lists among its partners, Fidelity, NASDAQ, Capital One, State Street and VISA.

Bloomberg reports on what just went down:
Inside the Secret Meeting Where Wall Street Tested Digital Cash
On a recent Monday in April, more than 100 executives from some of the world’s largest financial institutions gathered for a private meeting at the Times Square office of Nasdaq Inc. They weren’t there to just talk about blockchain, the new technology some predict will transform finance, but to build and experiment with the software.
By the end of the day, they had seen something revolutionary: U.S. dollars transformed into pure digital assets, able to be used to execute and settle a trade instantly. That’s the promise of a blockchain, where the cumbersome and error-prone system that takes days to move money across town or around the world is replaced with almost instant certainty. The event was created by Chain, one of many startups trying to rewire the financial industry, with representatives from Nasdaq, Citigroup Inc., Visa Inc., Fidelity, Fiserv Inc., Pfizer Inc. and others in the room.
The event -- announced in a statement this Monday -- marked a key moment in the evolution of blockchain, notable both for what was achieved, as well as how many firms were involved. The technology’s potential has captivated Wall Street executives because it offers a way to free up billions of dollars by speeding transactions that currently can take days, tying up capital. But a huge piece of that puzzle is transforming cash into a digital form. And while some firms have conducted experiments, the Chain event showed a large number of them are now looking jointly at a potential solution.
“We created a digital dollar” to show the group at Nasdaq an instant debit and credit on a blockchain, said Marc West, chief technology officer at Fiserv, a transaction and payments company with more than 13,000 clients across the financial industry. “This is the first time the money has moved.”

An economy operating on digital cash where physical cash is eliminated is a very dangerous idea. As Edward Snowden might say. it provides a turnkey operation for an abusive government or leader to track anyone and everyone.

Not a good idea.

-RW 

2 comments:

  1. Seeing how utterly corrupt and politicized many federal agencies have become, I'd say abuse is a certainty. They've demonstrated that they cannot be trusted

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  2. Track? Digital currency will allow authorities to freeze everything you have down to the last cent. You won't be able to buy gas or food. You won't be able to hire a lawyer to challenge the freeze. You will be able to do whatever they want you to do to survive another day. Or maybe your friends will feed you for a couple weeks, that will get old pretty quick, after your utilities are turned off, and your taxes are unpaid . . and the notices get threatening.

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