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A fifty-year history of Facebook's Libra
Monday, September 23, 2019 anonymity cross border payments fintech Libra payments SDR unit of account

A fifty-year history of Facebook's Libra

Last week, we finally got some information about what Libra's currency basket would look like. A Libra currency basket will reportedly i...
The life and death of an internet monetary meme
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 bitcoin fiat money gold inflation

The life and death of an internet monetary meme

Over the last few years I've increasingly crossed paths with the following claim on the internet: "The average life expectancy for ...
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