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Bitcoin’s strange feedback loop

May 27, 2020 Comments are Disabled

The leading cryptocurrency’s design features cause it to behave weirdly: the more speculators buy bitcoin, the greater the short-term downward pressure on its price. “There are two features of bitcoin […]

We will make our own money

May 20, 2020 Comments are Disabled

In the last decade, everyone has been able to join networks like Airbnb and Uber to rent out their property or labour. The sharing economy now extends to electricity, where […]

The smart money upheaval

May 13, 2020 Comments are Disabled

If money is ‘the most successful story ever invented by humans’, as Israeli historian Yuval Harari tells us, then the narrative is about to take a fantastical turn. That’s my […]

Telegram abandons blockchain plans

May 13, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Social network Telegram is abandoning its plans to launch a new blockchain, the firm announced yesterday in a blogpost from its chief executive, Pavel Durov. Together with the recent decision […]

Hard times call for local currencies

April 24, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Hard economic times can spur the adoption of local currencies. Could digital payments give a boost to the trend? In an economic slump, no one has much cash. And if […]

Payments are about politics

April 22, 2020 Comments are Disabled

The ongoing revolution in payments merits everyone’s attention. That’s because it’s not just a question of winners and losers in the battle over payment technology or the societal impact of […]

Facebook scales back global currency plans

April 16, 2020 Comments are Disabled

In an updated version of its white paper, released today, the Libra Association says it is scaling back its initial plans for a global payments medium and instead focusing on […]

China digital cash launch threatens US control

April 16, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Leaked prototypes of China’s new central bank digital currency (CBDC) suggest the country will use mobile phone-based money to challenge US control of the global financial system. According to media […]

The users are in charge

April 15, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Bitcoin poses a revolutionary challenge to conventional models of financial governance, says a University of Luxembourg researcher. Financial market infrastructures—or ‘FMIs’, for short—are the most heavily regulated part of the […]

Tokens will remake markets and geopolitics

April 6, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Tokens—smart digital claims on assets—are going to completely remake financial markets, predicts author and technologist David Birch. Meanwhile, China’s state-backed digital currency experiment could accelerate a global power shift from […]

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Bitcoin’s strange feedback loop

We will make our own money

The smart money upheaval

Telegram abandons blockchain plans

Hard times call for local currencies

Payments are about politics

Facebook scales back global currency plans

China digital cash launch threatens US control

The users are in charge

Tokens will remake markets and geopolitics

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