The book is in German. In Sekunden bezahlen. Weltweit. Ohne Gebühren.
An account balance is not ownership. It is a number next to a promise — that the bank will pay it out when you ask. Usually it holds. Sometimes it does not: a letter, a deadline, an account that suddenly wants documents your life never produced.
There is a second way to hold value. It is as old as a bunch of keys: what you have, you have. For a few years now it has also worked digitally — without a bank, without permission, without a fee, anywhere in the world, in one second.
This book shows how. In twenty minutes you will have done it once, with a few cents, no sign-up and no ID. After that you know what you are talking about.
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| I — Wem das Geld gehört | What ownership means when you cannot get at it |
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| II — Wie es funktioniert und wie man es benutzt | The construction, and the practical guides: first wallet, backup, buying, spending, accepting payments in a business |
| III — Die Welt um Nano | Tools, services, law and tax, comparisons — and a chapter on systems that call themselves free and are not |
| IV — Lehrstücke | Four case studies, including the exchange that lost its users' money and the question why none of this has caught on |
About 180 pages, A5. Every chapter that can go out of date carries its date and an address where the current version of that chapter stands — see book updates.
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The downside is in it as plainly as the upside: whoever loses the key loses everything. There is no hotline. And that is exactly what the book is for — to make you capable of the responsibility that comes with the freedom.
The sample chapters will be free to read here. Publication date and where to buy follow on this page as soon as they are fixed.