An Ethical AdBlocker - a Bitcoin killer app?

Ads suck. TV ads suck, internet ads suck, pretty much all ads suck (well, perhaps except for some Super Bowl ads  and a few rare gems ). Mor...

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Don't kill the $100 bill

Last week I asked whether the Federal Reserve could get rid of the $100 bill. This week let's discuss whether it should get rid of the ...

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Central banks' shiny new tool: cash escape inhibitors

Thomas Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank Negative interests rates are the shiny new thing that everyone wan...

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Breaking dollar's fungibility

In the modern world we rarely make a distinction between the money in our banks, the currency in our pocket, or our balance in a digital wal...

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Can a central bank eliminate its highest value banknote?

Singapore's $10,000 bill, worth around US$7500, shares title to world's largest value banknote with Brunei's $10,000 Peter Sands...

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The Dark Wiki

This blog post is inspired by some "what if" videos made by Tom Scott, in which he explores a theoretical futures  when Google for...

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Does the Fed lack the technical means to dive into negative rate waters?

The Federal Reserve may be in a bit of a bind. With the Bank of Japan reducing rates to -0.1%, many commentators are calling on the Fed to ...

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Bank of Japan warms up the potato

Will the Bank of Japan's negative rates work? Many people say no, among them Louis-Phillippe Rochon : Sadly, they won't. They [negat...

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