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Card V-15: MILTON FRIEDMAN – The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, it’s a reliable e-cash … you can transfer funds from A to B, without A knowing B or B knowing A.

Series V · Card 15 of 21 · THE MINE

The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, it’s a reliable e-cash … you can transfer funds from A to B, without A knowing B or B knowing A.

MILTON FRIEDMAN · INTERVIEW NTUF · 1999

Turn it over, answer, sign – free, no account.

Source

Interview with the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, 1999 (video; transcript at Cointelegraph)

Open source · cointelegraph.com ↗

About the author

American economist and Nobel laureate (1912–2006). Founder of monetarism and an influential advocate of free markets; in 1999 he predicted that reliable digital cash would soon be developed.

The question on the back

Can you already pay without the other side needing to know who you are?