Monday, August 28, 2017 Bank of Canada cash counterfeiting demonetization Reserve Bank of Australia Reserve Bank of India You call that counterfeiting? This is counterfeiting! One of the world's most notorious cases of counterfeiting was the 1925 Portuguese banknote crisis, when Artur Virgilio Alves Reis manage...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 bitcoin counterfeiting ghost money gold standard unit of account Chain splits under a Bitcoin monetary standard The recent bitcoin chain split got me thinking again about bitcoin-as-money, specifically as a unit of account . If bitcoin were to serve as...
Thursday, August 10, 2017 Bank of England coins Why is a one pound coin worth more than four pennies? The new 12-sided pound coin released earlier this year The UK's recently-introduced one pound coin is made of 8.75 grams of metal, 76% ...