You’ll soon be Able to Anonymously Send People Money with Ease, and It Will be a Big Deal

You’re thousands of miles, maybe more, from the woman on screen. Perhaps that screen is a TV; perhaps it’s a tablet or computer monitor. The action is live broadcast, or streaming, or pre-recorded. She’s an activist engaged in righteous protest, a journalist reporting from a disaster zone, a web-cam model about to take her clothes off. It doesn’t matter. The point is, you would like to support her endeavors. You aim your smartphone camera at the barcode on her poster/backpack/boudoir and click. Within a few moments, your chosen donation – dollars or Bitcoin, a token or a ton – has been deposited into her account.

Welcome to the near future, friends.

Avenues for instantly and anonymously transferring from anywhere are still scarce, or at least scarcely utilized. That could change as soon as this year.

Apps such as Venmo have made phone payments easy, but these tools still work through traditional channels, with funds directly attached to your bank account and identity. And the lag time between receiving a payment and being able to spend that money may still be several days.

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