Matt Levine entertains the possibility that all money is a ponzi: "But of course crypto people will happily tell you that fiat curren...

"Currencies are not memes that only have value because governments say they do," writes Brendan Greeley for the Financial Times. ...

I often encounter memes claiming that fiat money is to blame for all sorts of government evils. Here is one example from Kraken bitcoin stra...

Over the last few years I've increasingly crossed paths with the following claim on the internet: "The average life expectancy f...

The (Great) Tower of Babel , 1563, Bruegel the Elder. "Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound ...

I am a big fan of coinsplainers like Andreas Antonopoulos. Listening to Andreas explain how bitcoin works is a great learning opportuni...

Bitcoin boasts many technical achievements, but none is more interesting to me than they way it was successfully bootstrapped. How did a...

Somalia has long played host to one of the world's strangest monetary phenomenon, a paper currency without a central bank. I explored...