Jon Matonis
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Investment Banking |
| Occupation | Chief Economist |
| 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.<br> <br> "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 <a href="http://tinyurl.com/mtasxd9"><em>Cybercash: The Coming Era of Electronic Money</em></a>, 2002<br> <br> "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 <a href="https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/465/386">"Electronic Cash and Monetary Policy"</a>, 1996<br> <br> "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 <a href="http://tinyurl.com/nthsrn"><em>Presenting Digital Cash</em></a>, 1995 |
| Interests | Austrian economics, bitcoin, cryptography, digital currency, digital money, encryption, free banking, foreign exchange, gold, libertarianism, monetary economics, virtual currency |