The Art of Monetary War
&quot;Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men&#x27;s stupidity,
but your talent to their reason.&quot;, said Rand who saw money not as an
evil but an instrument of peace.<p>What worries me with talk of &quot;Monetary war&quot; is the transition of money
as means of peace into a weapon.<p>Mark this, much as I detest Russia today and believe brutal sanctions
are the way, we will all reap tyranny if banks are militarised.<p>First the central digital currencies will be used to cut-off
&quot;terrorists&quot;, then companies who won&#x27;t play games, and eventually
individuals with inconvenient things to say. Without some form of
&quot;bitcoin&quot; [1] that evades authoritarian control, or a diverse basket
of payments backed by legislation to prevent &quot;cashless hellholes&quot;,
you&#x27;d better realise your wealth exists only at the whim of some
unseen power.<p>[1] we _must_ evolve past PoW