New Money Review

A new experiment in private money

April 10, 2018 1 comment

By launching in competition to government-issued fiat currencies, cryptocurrencies are a new version of private money, an asset class with a long tradition, says Lawrence H. White, a professor of […]

Cryptocurrencies: who’s at the controls?

April 9, 2018 1 comment

An old adage says: “Don’t invest in what you don’t understand”. Many people interested in buying bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been put off by the apparent complexity of these […]

Heat rises over cryptocurrencies’ energy costs

April 8, 2018 2 comments

If cryptocurrencies have a natural tendency to polarise opinion between their supporters and their critics, there’s one topic guaranteed to send temperatures rising—the energy consumption associated with the maintenance of […]

Freer thinking about money

April 7, 2018 1 comment

Judging by the volume and the heat of the headlines they generate, cryptocurrencies touch something deep in the human psyche. But the contradictory nature of those headlines may leave you […]

What powers bitcoin

April 6, 2018 0 comments

An old adage says: “Don’t invest in what you don’t understand”. Many people interested in buying bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been put off by the apparent complexity of these […]

Where cryptocurrencies came from

April 4, 2018 0 comments

An old adage says: “Don’t invest in what you don’t understand”. Many people interested in buying bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been put off by the apparent complexity of these […]