Chaum in Time: untraceable cash "root of all evil"

professor rat pro2rat at yahoo.com.au
Mon Jul 25 09:06:16 PDT 2022


'Paper money is, I hate to say it, the root of all evil', says DigiCash Founde Chaum, 
who argues that the traceability of electronic cash will mean the end of some tiypes of crime. 'What kidnapper would take a ransom payment by check? 
Once you build the infrastructure for electroni cash, the incremental cost of replacing paper
cash is small. And the social benefits could be amazing."

Who was it that said "A liberal statist with a privacy fetish?"

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