Oktober 2016

How anonymous is cash?

Dutch 10 guilder note. Holland and Lebanon are the only countries to have issued banknotes with bar codes. One of the interesting things tha...

The shares of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), Switzerland's central bank, have almost doubled since July, despite there being no real new...

Satoshi Nakamoto kicked off his famous 2008 white pape r with the line: "Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively o...

Last week we discussed problems with using really big numbers in cryptocurrencies . This week I'd like to talk about misconceptions surr...

Do citizens benefit by owning money that is pegged to the nation's own unit of account rather than a foreign unit of account? Let's ...

Recently, the infamous OneCoin made news once more in the Bitcoin circles after their OneLife mastermind stream . One of the more interesti...