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Free Alzheimers for everyone. Thanks!

It almost did roughly 5 years ago: https://qz.com/165273/the-existential-threat-to-bitcoin-its-boosters-said-was-impossible-is-now-at-hand/#/

Profiling people is big business for the data miners. I'm sure the NSA et. al. like it too. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-and-mastercard-cut-a-secret-ad-deal-to-track-retail-sales

It was probably posted in another thread (it's from late October), but it's worth mentioning here: https://papersplease.org/wp/2018/10/15/tsa-announces-biometrics-vision-for-all-commercial-aviation-travelers/#more-12947

Nice. I can't believe people fell for that scam. I used to get those calls at least once a week, but it's been a while since they called me. Huge waste of my time.

Well poop. I'm not sure how I missed the news that Goodfriend was nominated for the Fed Reserve Board back in November 2017, but I did. His ideas in the The Case for Unencumbering Interest Rate Policy at the Zero Bound are odious. What a punch to the gut to hear that he is on tap to have actual voting power to effect that bullshit. Article referenced in the OP didn't even mention Goodfriend's solution to the public's resistance to the ultimate goal of abolishing cash. Goodfriend acknowledged that that wasn't practical, so he came up with another idea: http://dailyreckoning.com/get-ready-unencumbered-interest-rate-policy-2/