All this talk about separating money from the state (which I agree with), but I think the far more important and immediate imperative is to separate money from identity.

With the shift to electronic payment systems, the unintended consequence was to combine identity with money into the ‘account’ concept which is basically a ledger with your name on it. People began to treat this as equivalent as money and voila, the state discovered a new lever with which to govern.

Now with #ecash, we now have the ability to separate identity from money and create digital bearer tokens that can exist outside of any one system as opposed to a ‘payment instruction’ that exists at the mercy of a payment system with your identity as the possible hostage.

#Cashu #ecash