tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2595455932654799850.post2796314681674500784..comments2023-11-02T10:55:07.208+01:00Comments on The Monetary Future: Drugs, Terrorism and Shadow BankingJon Matonishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04111660030028727950noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2595455932654799850.post-52574698028193253072010-04-07T13:29:13.629+02:002010-04-07T13:29:13.629+02:00Thomas L. Knapp of the Center for a Stateless Soci...Thomas L. Knapp of the Center for a Stateless Society has an excellent response to this Reuters piece which can be found at:<br /><br />http://themonetaryfuture.blogspot.com/2010/04/our-beautiful-laundrettes.htmlJon Matonishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04111660030028727950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2595455932654799850.post-75030471350473251552010-03-30T00:14:51.432+02:002010-03-30T00:14:51.432+02:00Thank God for The Shadow Economy and the Shadow Ba...Thank God for The Shadow Economy and the Shadow Banking System!<br /><br />We pretty much had the same set of issues when I was the CEO at HushMail. Of course, scammers and crooks would use the encrypted email service to hide their tracks and we responded to about 125 government subpoenas per week (the inboxes were encrypted, however). Political dissidents in Tibet, asylum seekers, protected witnesses, etc were also the users of HushMail so I felt good about providing a liberating service to many around the world.<br /><br />What people fail to realize is that financial privacy is just as fundamental as communication/email privacy. Look at the Jews under Hitler that sought to protect their generational wealth. It is a core right (and not to be taken lightly). It matters not that other miscreants use a particular service, because laying the rails of the infrastructure benefits society for the good as well. Today, scammers and crooks use the telephones and mail, but we don’t blame the phone companies or the US Post Office. Furthermore, the underground economy is full of people using Helicopter Ben’s Federal Reserve notes but society doesn’t blame the Fed for providing paper $100 bills to the kidnappers, drug dealers, organized crime, and pedophiles.<br /><br />Anonymous, untraceable digital cash is a fundamental right of financial privacy. RESIST DIGITAL MONEY ….. unless it’s anonymous.Jon Matonishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04111660030028727950noreply@blogger.com