Fiat cash IS a means of silent, on-going theft-via-inflation, but it still has the virtues of anonymity and non-reliance on the internet, electricity, or anything else.
Gold-backed AND exchangeable-for-gold cash (as America used to have, until Franklin "Internment camp" Roosevelt confiscated (let's not get picky on the details) America's gold coinage. That type of HONEST cash is an excellent (if not all-powerful) barrier against tyranny and a boon to the citizenry.
Fiat cash IS a means of silent, on-going theft-via-inflation, but it still has the virtues of anonymity and non-reliance on the internet, electricity, or anything else.
Gold-backed AND exchangeable-for-gold cash (as America used to have, until Franklin "Internment camp" Roosevelt confiscated (let's not get picky on the details) America's gold coinage. That type of HONEST cash is an excellent (if not all-powerful) barrier against tyranny and a boon to the citizenry.