The War for Our Wallets

This book focuses on my conversation with Brett Scott, who is an economic anthropologist, financial activist, and former broker. In 2013, he published The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money, and since then has spoken at hundreds of events across the globe and has appeared in international media, including BBC World News and Sky News. Brett has written extensively on financial reform, digital finance, alternative currency, blockchain technology, and the cashless society for publications like the Guardian, New Scientist, Huffington Post, Wired, and CNN.com, and publishes the Altered States of Monetary Consciousness newsletter. He has worked on financial reform campaigns and alternative currency systems with a wide range of groups and is a Senior Fellow of the Finance Innovation Lab (U.K.). He lives in Berlin.