Digital currency

The COVID-19 Cash Out

2020-03-22

While Chinese authorities have been destroying banknotes that have potentially come into contact with the coronavirus, Western countries remain woefully behind not just in their response to the pandemic

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The Digital Money Revolution

2019-11-16

The rapid pace and sheer scale of innovation in digital currencies and mobile payments indicates that a monetary revolution is forthcoming. The choice for governments

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Will Libra Be Stillborn?

2019-10-16

Where the problem for economies and financial services is lack of competition, residents of developing countries need to look to their own regulators and politicians...

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Why Reinvent the Monetary Wheel?

2018-05-25

Cryptocurrencies promise to realize Friedrich Hayek’s dream of a free market in money. But human societies have discovered no better way to keep the value of money roughly constant than by relying on central banks to exercise control over its issue

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The Old Allure of New Money

2018-05-23

The cryptocurrency revolution, which started with bitcoin in 2009, claims to be inventing new kinds of money

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