Zimbabwe's new bond coins and the demonetization of the rand

Issued a little less than a year ago, Zimbabwe's bond coin is one of the world's newest monetary units. The bond coin is designed to...

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21 Bitcoin Computer - the Macintosh of Bitcoin

It looks like the 21 Bitcoin Computer has began shipping recently  for $400 apiece. Moreover, we also got a few extra bits of information f...

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Sample bankchain feature set

In the recent months, many banks and other financial institutions started looking into the blockchain technology as a potential improvement...

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Arbitraging the 49th parallel

Thanks to a floating exchange rate and one of the longest undefended frontiers in the world, the U.S.-Canada border is the thoroughfare for ...

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Human capital bonds

After last week's post on the relative benefits of renting versus buying a home, Ryan Decker  sent me to his earlier post on the subje...

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Sidechains for bankchains

After talking about sidechains as an important feature for reimplementing the cyrptocurrency landscape  and criticising Liquid for not livi...

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Why (not) rent your home?

Ted Nasmith, An Unexpected Morning Visit "Why not just get a mortgage and buy the place rather than throwing money away on rent?" ...

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