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One of the basic structures of everyday life, money is at its core a communication media. Payment systems - cash, card, app, or Bitcoin - are informational and symbolic tools that integrate us into, or exclude us from, the society that surrounds us. Examining the social politics of financial technologies, Lana Swartz reveals what's at stake when we pay. This accessible and insightful analysis comes at a moment of disruption: from "fin-tech" startups to cryptocurrencies, a variety of technologies are poised to unseat traditional financial infrastructures. Swartz explains these changes, traces their longer histories, and demonstrates their consequences. She shows just how important these invisible systems are. Getting paid and paying determines whether or not you can put food on the table. The data that payment produces is uniquely revelatory - and newly valuable. New forms of money create new forms of identity, new forms of community, and new forms of power. --

Digital currency. --- Payment --- Electronic funds transfers. --- EFT (Electronic funds transfers) --- Electronic banking --- Electronic check clearing --- Electronic money systems --- Electronic payments systems --- Electronic transfer of funds --- Funds, Electronic transfers of --- Telebanking --- Transfers of funds, Electronic --- Electronic data interchange --- Electronic benefits transfers --- Home banking services --- Commercial law --- Extinguishment of debts --- Performance (Law) --- Balance of trade --- Debtor and creditor --- Digital cash --- Digital money --- Electronic currency --- Electronic money --- Virtual currency --- Virtual money --- Electronic funds transfers --- Money --- Social aspects. --- Law and legislation --- Digital currency --- Social aspects --- Economic sociology --- Money. Monetary policy --- Mass communications --- E-books --- Payment - Social aspects