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. […]
Several blockchain initiatives aiming to reform the system of ownership for the world’s share and bond markets have just hit road bumps. One project, SETL, has said it is putting […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency prices may be languishing in the doldrums after a year-long bear market, but there’s healthy interest in the firms running the sector’s growing infrastructure. Earlier today […]
Blockchain forks—the splitting of a cryptocurrency into two—are an occupational hazard for anyone involved in this emerging asset class. Now the head of a cryptocurrency trading firm has called for […]
Transferring money from one person to another is relatively easy if you are in physical proximity, in the same time zone or national financial system. But what if your counterparty […]
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 […]
Expectations that cryptocurrencies would grant their users complete anonymity have proved wide of the mark. But the debate over digital money and privacy may just be beginning. [This article is […]
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