Last updated February 4th, 1997

"If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible." [Henry David Thoreau]

• A History of Money
• Pioneers of Digital Cash
• Banks and other Large, Impersonal Corporations
• Other People and Organizations
• Hardcore Technical Information



Free Banking Resources

• Currency Competition: Some Options Considered
• George Selgin's The Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply Under Competitive Note Issue
• The Ruble Competition: A Competitive Solution

  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: J. Orlin Grabbe discusses The End of Ordinary Money and How to Launder Money. Learn the ins and outs of FinCEN, possibly the greatest threat to your financial privacy since the IRS.

  Mike Holderness apparently found this page of some value in researching his article, Slipping Through the Tax Net.

  
  Before you check on what the "big names" are doing, try these "grassroots" approaches:
  • Pr0duct Cypher's "Magic Money"
  • FireCloud Ecash Exchange
  • Mark Grant's E-cash Marketplace
  • Idea Futures: a virtual information market [currently unavailable?]

  Pioneers

  "You can tell the pioneers from the arrows in their backs." [Unknown]

  • David Chaum's DigiCash
  • CyberCash, Inc.

  Banks and other Large, Impersonal Corporations

  "Here at First National, you're not just a number: You're two numbers, a dash, three more numbers, another dash and another number." [Unknown]

  • First Virtual Holdings, Inc.
  • Security First Network Bank
  • NetBill
  • NetCheque(SM)
  • NetMarket
  • Mondex
  • Net1
  • Internet Shopping Network

  Other People and Organizations

  • Stefan Brand is working on a PhD thesis on untraceable cash
  • Economics and the Internet: a collection of documents on the net.economics, information goods, and related issues maintained by Hal Varian
  • RSA Data Security, Inc.
  • the Bionomics Institute: spontaneous order from free markets to operating systems
    • Brad Cox's unofficial Bionomics page
    • Agorics: Applying the principles of freedom to the design of computer operating systems
    • Market Oriented Programming
  • IBM Electronic Commerce Services (includes info on Internet Keyed Payment Protocol)
  • Downtown Anywhere, Front Street: "a virtual city with a real economy"
  • the Internet Casino: A statist's nightmare
  • Financial Services Technology Consortium: "a consortium of financial services providers, national laboratories, universities, and government agencies who sponsor and participate in non-competitive collaborative research and development on interbank technical projects"
  • CommerceNet
    • CommerceNet's position on cryptography, detailing concerns on the grounds of "competitiveness"

  Hardcore Technical Information

  • Credit Card Payment Applications Over the Internet, by Taher Elgamal of Netscape
  • Electronic Financial Transaction Models by Wenbo Mao
  • abstracts on cryptology and digital cash
  • Cash, Tokens, etc. on the NII: Ecash as designed by control freaks, which leaves a trail

  Various sites I've looked at but haven't categorized yet:

  • All cleaned up for now.

  Beginnings of Freedom | Cryptology and Privacy | American Government

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