Jon Matonis

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Gender	MALE
Industry	Internet
Occupation	Digital Currency Executive
Location	London , United Kingdom
Introduction	I am an e-Money researcher and a Founding Director of the Bitcoin Foundation. My career has included senior influential posts at Sumitomo Bank, VISA, VeriSign, and Hushmail. "Free-market protagonists, such as Matonis, regard cybercash as better than traditional government-issued or -regulated money, because it is determined by market forces and thus nonpolitical in nature." --Robert Guttmann, Professor of Economics at Hofstra University, in Cybercash: The Coming Era of Electronic Money , 2002 "Matonis is quite correct that the new technology makes easier the use of multiple private currencies." --Mark Bernkopf, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in "Electronic Cash and Monetary Policy" , 1996 "Matonis argues that what is about to happen in the world of money is nothing less than the birth of a new Knowledge Age industry: the development, issuance, and management of private currencies." --Seth Godin in Presenting Digital Cash , 1995
Interests	Austrian economics, bitcoin, cryptography, digital currency, digital money, encryption, free banking, foreign exchange, gold, libertarianism, monetary economics, virtual currency