Cypherpunks wanted to change the world. We ended up with memecoins. Our story begins with some very smart and idealistic developers, known a...

The Swiss 10-centime coin has a lot to teach us about monetary economics. On its face, the Swiss 10-centime (rappen in German) looks like a ...

Ed Conway of Sky News recently published a very good investigation on sanctions evasion being carried out through the Caucasus. He visits t...

Everyone agrees that money laundering laws apply to DeFi. The question is: how to apply them? DeFi, or decentralized finance , is an emergin...

Before anti-money laundering laws arrived in Switzerland, anyone could walk into a Swiss bank and open an account without showing any ID. Th...

I recently shared a chart on Twitter showing Chinese exports of ball bearings to Russia. Here it is: Having accelerated after Putin's i...

Riot Platform's Rockdale, Texas facility, North America’s largest Bitcoin mining farm by developed capacity [ source ] Can a network tha...

We all have a pretty good idea that our finances are being snooped on, but most of us aren't quite able to articulate how. We know that ...