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Can bitcoin live on fees alone?

January 24, 2019 0 comments

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 […]

Polluters or saviours? Bitcoin miners revisited

January 23, 2019 0 comments

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 […]

Quantum-proofing digital money

January 22, 2019 1 comment

As developments in computer science promise huge advances in processing power, some cryptocurrency designers are aiming to ensure their digital moneys’ underlying code does not become obsolete. Cryptocurrencies—and all the […]

Can cryptocurrency networks govern themselves?

November 21, 2018 2 comments

Last week’s dramatic price decline across the cryptocurrency market has reignited an old debate—are networks like bitcoin inherently ungovernable? The fork forks again On November 15 bitcoin cash (BCH), itself […]

How identity systems create financial power

November 12, 2018 0 comments

Money, identity and privacy are all linked. But these concepts are constantly changing in the face of new technology. Should money be anonymous or tied to the identity of the […]

New shoots for crypto-based fundraising

November 8, 2018 0 comments

In theory, decentralised ledgers could help revolutionise the global capital-raising process, disrupting the share and bond markets in the same way that bitcoin promises an alternative to central bank-issued money. […]

Bitcoin and ETFs: beware a collateral chain reaction

September 7, 2018 0 comments

Bitcoin tracker funds threaten a clash by bringing together two fundamentally incompatible financial systems, says one former investment banker. Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are still on the drawing board: as […]

Staying ahead of the crypto hackers

August 15, 2018 0 comments

Pavol Rusnak, chief technologist at cryptocurrency storage device provider Trezor, discusses security and his firm’s business philosophy in an exclusive interview. The private key to a cryptocurrency confers ownership of […]

The internal contradictions of ICOs

August 13, 2018 0 comments

Despite their promise of a revolutionary new fundraising technology, initial coin offerings (ICOs) suffer from major internal contradictions, says one cryptocurrency market observer. In an exclusive interview with New Money […]

How fragile are cryptocurrencies?

June 21, 2018 0 comments

The BIS says the underpinning of trust in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin is fragile. Cryptocurrency supporters argue the opposite—past glitches have helped make bitcoin stronger than ever. ‘The underpinning of trust […]

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Can bitcoin live on fees alone?

Polluters or saviours? Bitcoin miners revisited

Quantum-proofing digital money

Can cryptocurrency networks govern themselves?

How identity systems create financial power

New shoots for crypto-based fundraising

Bitcoin and ETFs: beware a collateral chain reaction

Staying ahead of the crypto hackers

The internal contradictions of ICOs

How fragile are cryptocurrencies?

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