Killing off cash: Could new tech mean the end of money?

Cash has been taking a beating lately.


Last week, Canada minted its last penny. Eurozone countries are working to restrict cash payments. Bitcoin is all the rage. Payments start-ups such as Square and iZettle are on a cash-killing mission, while non-profit organisations, governments, the World Bank, small businesses, multinational corporations, app developers, hippies, libertarians, liberals, right-wingers all have agendas that can be advanced by alternatives to cash, and they're all pushing to bring them about.

But like forecasts of flying cars, predictions of a cashless future have a history of failure.

This is in part because progress is incremental, and in part because physical money is a time-tested technology.

It's fast, widely accepted, anonymous and useful for old-school budgeting and when the power goes out.

Yet powerful forces are aligning against cash.

Together, they provide a glimpse of what a cashless or mostly cashless future might look like, and illuminate the promise of digital money, irrespective of whether cash is ever kaput or just increasingly marginalised.

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But gold is not value incarnate. It's just another commodity, albeit a historically pivotal and impressively hefty one.

Those who grasp that fact, yet still distrust central bank-issued currencies, are turning to local and online options, barter exchanges, and the crypto-currency Bitcoin.

im neuen Video habe ich mal Stripperinnen eingebaut ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIlqt5efwYI

Vor „Diebstählen“ der nötigen kryptographischen Schlüssel ist man aber nicht gefeit. Genau das hatte sich zuvor schon als großes Problem herausgestellt, als digitale Diebe im März letzten Jahres eine Sicherheitslücke beim Webhoster Linode ausnutzten. Dabei wurden die digitalen Geldbörsen mehrerer Nutzer geplündert.

Ein weiteres Problem bei der Preisstabilität der Bitcoins kommt aber dann noch hinzu: wenn tatsächlich plötzlich zahlreiche Menschen Bitcoins erwerben wollen dann werden die großen Preisschwankungen wohl eher noch verschärft. All der Hürden zum Trotz: I want some!

I need a bitcoin for a domain page i can pay you back 1.2 btc by march 1st or i can send you some of my x box games i have them listed under goods i really wanna jump on this domain name before my coworkers beat me to it.

Yada yada yada nobody wants to lend to me so have fun reading this look up my ad for the rubber anus im kinda proud of myself i dun good ma look at me now up on da fancy interweb.

Feel free to download, copy, edit, share, do what ever with it. The only request I have is that if you spot a typo or a grammar error to please let me know so I can correct it. Thanks!

warum hat mich keine geweckt. 

wie war das mit dem wecker 

Buy your way onto a space flight using Bitcoins

Hopefully you haven’t spent all of your hard-mined Bitcoins on pizza just yet, because now you can put them toward becoming an astronaut. Startup I Dream of Space (IDoS) wants to put you on a commercial flight into space, but rather than just ask for a bunch of your money to send you there, the company is only asking everyone for a little bit of money and will choose a winner at random.

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Perhaps the best part about this raffle is that you can buy the poster using Bitcoins. If you happen to buy the winning ticket to space with the pseudo-currency, you’ll be able to say you are going to space thanks in part to Bitcoin.

Hab ich eigentlich irgendwas verpasst oder warum geht der Kurs seit anfang 2013 so durch die Decke?

Wie genau läuft das technisch dort ab? Man bekommt dann eine Proxyaddresse von denen oder einen VPN Zugang...?

Außerdem - wie sind da die Preise derzeit? Ich hab irgendwie keine Lust, erstmal ne Mail zu hinterlassen nur um die Preistabelle zu Gesicht zu bekommen.

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