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Monday, July 26, 2021

Are the Bank of Canada's bond purchases illegal?

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Pierre Poilievre, Conservative MP for Carleton, alleges that the Bank of Canada's bond buying program contravenes the Bank's powers ...
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Thursday, July 22, 2021

The dollar isn't a meme

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"Currencies are not memes that only have value because governments say they do," writes Brendan Greeley for the Financial Times. ...
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Monday, July 12, 2021

Those 70s ACH payments

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Here is Facebook's David Marcus, who has been involved in rolling out Facebook's much-touted Libra/Novi/Diem payments system: I ofte...
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Monday, June 28, 2021

There are two kinds of people who label bitcoin a ponzi

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There are two kinds of people who label bitcoin a ponzi. The first group is made up of salty nocoiners who launch the word ponzi as an insu...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021

A short and lukewarm defence of anti-money laundering standards

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These days it seems that everyone is a critic of anti-money laundering rules. In this post I want to try and defend our current approach to ...
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Friday, June 11, 2021

Why do ransomware gangs like bitcoin? It's the censorship resistance

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A new type of crime has recently emerged: big-ticket repeatable ransomware . Bitcoin is the chosen payments method for ransomware gangs. But...
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021

A bronze currency in ancient Europe?

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Metal scraps from a soldier’s pouch found at the Late Bronze Age battlefield of Tollensee Valley ( source ) 1) Last month I wrote about hac...
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Saturday, May 15, 2021

The overconsumption theory of bitcoin (and decentralization in general)

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Bitcoin mining farm ( via CoinDesk ) There are two extreme theories about cryptocurrency energy consumption, both of them bitterly opposed t...
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Thursday, May 6, 2021

A nickel is worth more than a nickel

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Having just emerged from the fiasco of last year's coin shortage (which I wrote about here and here ), the U.S. Mint has a new problem ...
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