The rise of digital currency has hit mainstream media, or at least the radar of Newsweek columnist Robert J. Samuelson:

"We have crossed a cultural as well as an economic threshold when plastic and money are synonyms and the crime of choice is identity theft, not bank robbery," he writes.

Samuelson provides a few facts and figures in his recent column entitled "The Vanishing Greenback."

I'm not sure what milestone was reached to prompt his column, and that's part of his point, that in general as a whole we've not paid much attention — though I suspect those at The Liberty Dollar would argue that.

I wonder if Samuelson's column will inspire a few more people to collect bank notes?