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The hidden politics of cryptocurrencies

May 20, 2019 0 comments

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 […]

Data for the permissionless future

May 10, 2019 0 comments

Financial market data is now a huge revenue earner: spending on market-related data and news has grown at a compounded rate of 13 percent a year since 2012, according to […]

The grit in the bitcoin machine

May 6, 2019 0 comments

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 is becoming a legal maze

May 1, 2019 0 comments

The proliferation of new forms of money is inevitable and our lives are going to become more challenging as a result. That’s the view of Simon Gleeson, a specialist in […]

Cryptoassets disrupt the world’s property laws

April 17, 2019 0 comments

New digital assets like bitcoin are often seen as potentially disruptive to the global monetary system and the legacy financial infrastructure. But they also pose a fundamental challenge to existing […]

Can bitcoin avoid fragmentation?

April 11, 2019 0 comments

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 […]

Following the [digital] money

April 9, 2019 0 comments

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 […]

Time for industry code on cryptocurrency forks, says B2C2 head

February 4, 2019 0 comments

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 […]

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 […]

The battle over financial privacy

December 10, 2018 0 comments

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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The hidden politics of cryptocurrencies

Data for the permissionless future

The grit in the bitcoin machine

Money is becoming a legal maze

Cryptoassets disrupt the world’s property laws

Can bitcoin avoid fragmentation?

Following the [digital] money

Time for industry code on cryptocurrency forks, says B2C2 head

Can bitcoin live on fees alone?

The battle over financial privacy

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