2019

The Watergate banknotes

Cash isn't quite anonymous, it's anonymous-ish. To illustrate this, a few years ago I wrote about the 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping cas...

It's fascinating to see how brokerages these days are offering no-commission trades , fractional share ownership , and debit card-linked...

I recently watched a video with Alex Gladstein on the importance of financial privacy. In general I agree. We should be working on expandin...

Paying for things online usually means giving up plenty of privacy. But this needn't always be the case. Last night I donated to a local...

Every few days for the last month or so I've been refreshing a Federal Reserve page that shows data about daylight overdrafts. For some...

A few weeks back Vice had an interesting story about Valve, a game maker, putting an end to trade in various in-game items because "wo...

Friday, November 22, 2019 nominal interest rates usury

My work as an inter-planetary monetary anthropologist has brought me to dozens of different planets to study their monetary systems. The mon...

Reuters and Coindesk report that that the People's Bank of China's imminent central bank digital currency (CBDC) is going to have ...

Antony Lewis recently published a useful article on stablecoins. In it he describes something called "permissioned pseudonymity"....

Satoshi's first email [ source ] Eleven years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto announced the bitcoin whitepaper to the world. Coinbase, a large cry...

I often hear the idea that the U.S. dollar is the means by which the U.S. implements sanctions. And since the U.S. dollar pervades all corne...

Central bank digital currency, or CBDC, is a form of highly-liquid digital debt that most governments have, till now, held back from issuing...