How to Burn Digital Money
This article is published in print format in the amazing Burning Issue Magazine created by legendary moneyburner Jonathan Harris. To pick up a copy of the full 160-page magazine go here To burn digital money requires an act of arson. You must undertake a mission to an industrial park to burn down the fortified datacentre of a large bank like Barclays. But even if you achieved that, they would have backups, and to fully burn the digital money supply you’d have to destroy all bank and central bank datacentres. Our everyday digital pounds, dollars and euros do not reside in your computer or on your phone. They reside as records imprinted on huge bank-controlled computer arrays, and your laptop or smartphone is just there to interact with those central hubs. We can burn cash because we have personal autonomy over it. We can hold it in one hand whilst striking a lighter flame in the other. Digital money, by contrast, is not directly held by us. It is held by those who control the...