The Last Days of Cash

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How E-Money Technology is Plugging Us into the Digital Econony

Posted May 30 2012

The Beginning of the End of Cash

Cash’s role is waning, as mobile, encryption, and other technologies let us plug directly into the digital economy

A Brief History of Money

Or, how we learned to stop worrying and embrace the abstraction

Interactive Timeline: The Evolution of Modern Money

Over the ages, money has become more abstract, virtual, and digital

Bitcoin: The Cryptoanarchists’ Answer to Cash

How Bitcoin brought privacy to electronic transactions

How a Bitcoin Transaction Works

See how payments get made and processed in an interactive infographic of the peer-to-peer money system

There’s No Stopping the Rise of E-Money

The economic and psychological underpinnings of hard money are weakening while the flexibility of e-money increases.

The Biometric Wallet

Palm vein scanners could eventually replace your wallet with your hand

My Year Trying to Live Cash Free

Author David Wolman glimpses the all-digital economic future

Consumption 2.0

Ownership is being replaced by online tools to rent, share, and trade

Don’t Write Off Checks

Like the paperless office, a check-free society is still far off

The Long Life and Imminent Death of the Mag-Stripe Card

The end is near for this love child of the airline and banking industries

Quantum Cash and the End of Counterfeiting

Physicists say they can make money that can’t be copied—at least in theory

Phone-y Money

Why marketers are cramming digital wallets down our throats

Virtual Currency Gets Real

Will Facebook Credits and other social scrip challenge government-backed currencies?

The High Cost of Taking Your Money

Transaction costs to merchants vary wildly, depending on how you pay

The Microsecond Market

Sophisticated technology now drives global financial trading to extremes of time and space

 

No More Waiting on NFC

Start-ups are making mobile payments work without dedicated hardware