Governments around the world are preparing to upgrade their national money from the paper to the digital era. Some argue the introduction of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) will mark […]
A year after it threatened to ban the sale to retail clients of contracts based on bitcoin and other cryptoassets, the UK’s financial markets regulator has put its words into […]
The global cryptoasset market is growing fast, but it’s one of the most opaque areas of finance. Now the world’s academic institutions are gearing up to map the sector. The […]
When the UK imposed its first coronavirus lockdown on 16 March, some consumers found they couldn’t get their money back for services they had paid for but were no longer […]
Earlier this month, the governor of the Bank of England made it clear that customers of electronic money (e-money) firms are less protected against a corporate collapse than customers of […]
When looking at financial markets, we should pay more attention to the physical stuff—the cables, boxes, chips and code—without which those markets wouldn’t exist. That’s because the money infrastructure has […]
Automated borrowing and lending transactions on cryptocurrency networks have soared this year. Is this yet another crypto bubble or is there a signal behind the noise? Where did DeFi come […]
Long-vilified for their environmental footprint, cryptocurrencies like bitcoin offer a potential solution to the growing problem of excess renewable energy. Blackouts in the golden state In the midst of last […]
Central banks around the world are rushing to prepare digital replacements for their notes and coins. But the most critical question of all regarding state digital money remains unresolved. Will […]
Bitcoin is a live, multi-billion-dollar experiment involving tens of millions of willing participants. It’s also a case study in game theory, the field of science that studies the interactions between […]
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