There's a chart that has been circulating for a while now on social media that shows payments traffic on SWIFT, a key global financial m...

What follows is an essay on how my thinking on bitcoin has changed since I began to write on the topic starting with my first post in Octob...

When we first learn about money and banking in high school or university, we are all taught that money has three functions: medium of exchan...

The next chapter in the Tornado Cash saga just dropped. Last week a court ruled last that Tornado Cash, a bot that can be used for obfuscati...

I began exploring the topic of financial privacy and payment anonymity in the early days of this blog. Over the past decade, my views have s...

Banknotes are useful. Not only do they provide their owner with a standard set of payments services, they also offer financial anonymity. ...

On the last day of 1945, with World War II finally behind it, Finland's government announced a new and very strange policy. All Finns we...