Our guest on the latest New Money Review podcast is Andreas Antonopoulos, a computer scientist, author and public speaker. He made a flying visit to London last week and New […]
Cryptocurrency networks are intensely political. But it’s often fiendishly hard to work out how those politics operate. Who made the decision to split the ethereum network in 2016, or to […]
One intriguing aspect of bitcoin is the way it makes explicit the cost of running a monetary system. Bitcoin mining requires a lot of energy: nearly as much as Switzerland, […]
Money in the traditional financial system is highly segmented, depending on its form and user. Can new digital currencies avoid going down the same road? Coins and banknotes, deposits at […]
Like a current, money flows, it circulates, it’s liquid. In fact, English law regards currency as one of the key attributes of money. But should new, virtual forms of money […]
It’s a period of heady and unprecedented innovation in both money and payments. But don’t expect central banks to join the party. That’s the sober message delivered today by Agustín […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]