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

I’m going to give you one guess why Germans are so fond of cash and distrustful of digital money that can be easily taken away if something goes wrong with the system. I’ve been reading books on this topic recently and they paint a bleak picture, but this one is at least not an entirely hopeless one.......more

Som beskrevet av Shoshana Zuboff i 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' er teknologigigantene i ferd med å bygge AI systemer som i kraft av sin tilgang til stadig mer overvåkningsdata spår vår adferd og våre ønsker for slik å tilby oss det ‘perfekte’ produktet eller opplevelsen før vi selv er klar o......more

i know next to nothing about fintech or macroeconomics on a global scale, so this book was perfect for someone like me. the author has a definite liberal slant - which i’m personally aligned with, but i genuinely love his acknowledgement of that bias and ability to write in, around, and with that un......more

I found it interesting to learn about money and digital banking etc. But I found the author to really gloss over key facts that would counter some of his arguments. Like how he says cash is tactile and phones are not?! Okay, but there are screen readers that empower blind people to use technology, t......more

Cloudmoney (2022) provides an overview of our present payment landscape. As it turns out, the age-old question of “cash or card” is not as simple as it seems. Underneath the push toward cashless is a murky world of powerful interests trying to extract profit and data from people’s purchases. And the......more