TY - BOOK AU - Scott,Brett TI - Cloudmoney: cash, cards, crypto, and the war for our wallets SN - 9780062936318 PY - 2022///] CY - New York, NY PB - Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers KW - Electronic funds transfers KW - Social aspects KW - Cash transactions KW - Electronic commerce KW - Electronic surveillance KW - Technology N1 - "Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2022 by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index; The nervous system -- The war on cash -- The giant in the mountain -- Digital chips -- The bank-chip society -- Big Brother. Big Bouncer. Big Butler. -- The unnatural progress of a 'Rapidly Changing World' -- Shedding and re-skinning -- Sherlock Holmes and the strange case of the data ghost -- Clash of the Leviathans -- A paranormalist's guide to the spectre of Bitcoin -- The political tribes of Cyber-Kowloon -- Raiding the raiders N2 - A monetary anthropologist examines how the drive to create a cashless digital money empire could lead to dire consequences for our civil liberties and create a dangerous nexus of Big Finance and Big Tech ER -