"Hello, to get your data back you have to pay for the decryption tool, the price is $1,200,000... You have to make the payment in Bi...

A few centuries ago, lack of fungibility used to be a big weakness of monetary systems. But technological and legal developments eventua...

In many parts of the world, cash held in ATMs or in cash-in-transit vehicles is protected by so-called intelligent banknote neutralization t...

The check used to buy Alaska ( source ) I recently read an FP article about the odd persistence of the cheque as a way to make payments...

No, I'm not talking about sound money in the sense of having a stable value. I'm talking about money that is sound because it can...

David Birch recently grumbled about people's sloppy use of the term legal tender , and I agree with him. As Birch points out, what m...