"In a world without cash (a bearer and peer-to-peer form of money) all transactions must be necessarily intermediated by financial institutions. Intermediated transactions are by their nature subject to surveillance and control."
— Jerry Brito (The Case for Electronic Cash, 2019)
#cash #surveillance #control #intermediation
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