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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Why my favorite coinage is Byzantine coinage

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What do I like about Byzantine coinage? Most people probably admire the Byzantine solidus , a gold coin that maintained its weight and purit...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

The first round of U.S. secondary sanctions on Russia is working

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Turkish banks halted transactions with Russian banks last month and are only slowly reintroducing payments for a narrow range of products t...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

What does the recent ruling on the Emergencies Act mean for your banking rights?

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A Federal judge ruled last week that the emergency banking measures taken to end the Ottawa convoy protest in 2022 contravened the protesto...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Do bitcoin ETFs conflict with bitcoin's original ethos?

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Some folks are suggesting that a bitcoin ETF is absurd because it doesn't fit with Bitcoin's original ethos. On the contrary, I thin...
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Monday, January 8, 2024

It's time to impose Iran-calibre sanctions on Russia

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Russia is sometimes described as the world's most sanctioned nation. And while that's true , the long list of sanctions that the G7 ...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Are flatcoins a good idea?

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I'll start with the conclusion. I don't think flatcoins are a good idea. The idea for flatcoins has been around for a while, but it ...
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Saturday, December 16, 2023

The long arm of OFAC and its reach into the Ethereum network

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Coinbase, the U.S.'s largest crypto exchange, is openly processing Ethereum transactions involving Tornado Cash, a piece of blockchain i...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Why do sanctioned entities use Tether?

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Tether, a stablecoin, has been in the news for offering sanctioned actors such as Hamas a means to participate in the global payments ecosy...
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Friday, December 1, 2023

Even crypto mixing deserves a threshold

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Many of you may not realize this, but in most parts of the developed world, banks automatically record and report our transactions to law en...
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