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Your Secret Right to Cash

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Physical cash historically gave people a private, bearer-style way to pay without routine permission checks or transaction surveillance. As money became digital and intermediated, that default right weakened, making privacy and censorship resistance explicit design goals rather than ambient properties.

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Curated resources (3)

• Your Secret Right to Cash (article) Peter Van Valkenburgh's essay on why private bearer cash mattered by default and what is lost when payments become fully intermediated.
• The Case for Electronic Cash (article) Extends the essay's argument into digital cash design, privacy, and exclusion risks in mediated payment systems.
• The Little Bitcoin Book (book) Human-rights framing for why open access, privacy, and resistance to exclusion matter for money.

Direct prerequisites (2)

• Censorship Resistance
• History of Money

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