Back in 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to require its citizens to use bitcoin for payments. Last month, four years...

Central bank settlement systems are the the tectonic plates of the payment system: they are vitally important to our lives, but we never see...

[This is a republication of my most recent CoinDesk opinion piece.] You've heard the script before. Migrants need to make payments bac...

image via Guy J. Abel and Stuart Gietel-Basten  A popular response to my recent tweet about remittance company Wise went like this: "b...

Look, I don't support the so-called "Freedom Convoy." Of the two big demonstrations currently going on in Canada – the Freedo...

Here is Facebook's David Marcus, who has been involved in rolling out Facebook's much-touted Libra/Novi/Diem payments system: I ofte...

Over the last decade, few nations have experienced as much monetary and payments chaos as Venezuela has. Fans of bitcoin, Dash, and other cr...

This post explores some of the technological advancements that have allowed remittances to be completed in seconds rather than days. If...