One of the best business books of recent years, ‘How Music Got Free’, by Stephen Witt, tells an engrossing tale of obsession, music, obscene money, visionaries, criminals and tycoons. […]
If there’s one obvious use case for distributed ledger or ‘blockchain’ technology, it’s in providing the future accounting systems for the world’s share and bond markets. At a stroke, shared […]
Hacks, lost private keys, data leaks, dead exchange owners—the list of mishaps separating cryptocurrency owners from their savings grows longer almost by the week. Now, new custodial schemes aim to […]
Last week US bank JP Morgan Chase announced that it has trialled a new digital payment token called JPM Coin. The token is designed to speed up the settlement of […]
If you thought payments were just about the transfer of value from A to B, you were wrong. “Payments are not about the movement of money any more, they are […]
Populist politicians in developed countries aim hostile rhetoric at economic migrants, aiming to deter their arrival. But for those who make it across borders to work abroad, sending money home […]
Payment lies at the origins of money and a promise to pay still supports public currency. The Bank of England promises to pay…but what? As if to reinforce the belief […]
I meet technologist Dave Birch on a cold, wet January afternoon at Patisserie Valerie in Old Compton Street, a café in London’s Soho district. This is the original branch of […]
A new Bank for International Settlements (BIS) report has reignited the debate over cryptocurrencies’ long-term viability. In a research paper released this week, Raphael Auer of the BIS’s Monetary and […]
Bitcoin miners secure the cryptocurrency’s network and mining has evolved into an energy-intensive, highly specialist industrial activity. But is bitcoin mining a totally unnecessary waste of electricity? Or could it […]
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