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Mix-Ansicht- Artikel in Forbes über e-gold - R.Deutsch, 23.02.2002, 09:09
- Re: Artikel in Forbes über e-gold / Aber bitte nicht mit MS! - Popeye, 23.02.2002, 10:04
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Re: Artikel in Forbes über e-gold / Aber bitte nicht mit MS!
>Bill Gates Could Save Buenos Aires
>William Baldwin, Forbes Magazine, 03.04.02
>The hoodlums running Argentina have devalued the peso and, in the bargain,
>seized dollars on deposit in that country. As Steve H. Hanke details on
>page 120, the authorities have discredited not only money but banking. In a
>wink they have bombed their economy back to the Stone Age. How can an
>economy work without a medium of exchange? For a money supply Argentineans
>might as well use large round boulders of the sort formerly in circulation
>on the island of Yap.
>Nothing that government can say or do about money will have any
>credibility, so salvation must come from outside. It could come in the form
>of software. I envision Microsoft as savior of the dispossessed in Latin
>America.
>The programmers in Redmond have a service called Passport that is intended
>as a gateway to e-commerce. Once Microsoft makes its products more
>hacker-proof, the service could catch on. The day may come when a
>stored-value card inside Passport becomes common currency on the Internet.
>Picture two peasants on the pampas. One wants to buy a sheep from the
>other. He pays by transmitting a signal from his Palm i705 to a bank in
>Zurich, which then transfers ownership of 10 grams of gold to the other
>fellow, who also has a Palm. Now it doesn't matter if Peronists or generals
>are running the country. There is nothing for them to seize.
>For a monetary base Argentineans could look to the $75 billion of flight
>capital (Hanke's estimate) that they have stashed abroad. Made liquid by
>the wireless Net and encryption software, this wealth could be zapped from
>plutocrat to cab driver to shepherd, in the process bringing a sick economy
>back to life.
>What is described here is not entirely fanciful. Already a firm called
>E-gold Ltd., run by a radiation oncologist in Melbourne, Fla., offers a
>micropayment system using precious metal. E-gold has credibility problems
>of its own--it's domiciled in a tax haven in the Caribbean--but there is no
>reason its role could not be played by a more substantial institution. UBS
>would do.
>When will Microsoft software be so trustworthy that even Argentinean
>peasants stake their wealth on it? Sooner than you think. Probably while
>their country is still being ruled by interim presidents.
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