Also related, from the Diamond Age: > The media net was designed from the ground up to provide privacy and security, so that people could use it to transfer mo

Also related, from the Diamond Age: > The media net was designed from the ground up to provide privacy and security, so that people could use it to transfer money. That's one reason the nationstates collapsed-as soon as the media grid was up and running, financial transactions could no longer be monitored by governments, and the tax collection systems got fubared.