A few weeks back Vice had an interesting story about Valve, a game maker, putting an end to trade in various in-game items because ...

My work as an inter-planetary monetary anthropologist has brought me to dozens of different planets to study their monetary systems. The ...

Reuters and Coindesk report that that the People's Bank of China's imminent central bank digital currency (CBDC) is going to ha...

Antony Lewis recently published a useful article on stablecoins. In it he describes something called "permissioned pseudonymity...

Satoshi's first email [ source ] Eleven years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto announced the bitcoin whitepaper to the world. Coinbase, a larg...

I often hear the idea that the U.S. dollar is the means by which the U.S. implements sanctions. And since the U.S. dollar pervades all co...

Central bank digital currency, or CBDC, is a form of highly-liquid digital debt that most governments have, till now, held back from issu...

By Harcourt Romanticist [ source ] This post is dedicated to the protesters in Hong Kong. I am awed at how courageous they have been in...

Last week, we finally got some information about what Libra's currency basket would look like. A Libra currency basket will reportedl...