The road to sound digital money joni Juni 20, 2017 Add Comment Bitcoin, cash, coins, currency, Fedcoin Edit No, I'm not talking about sound money in the sense of having a stable value. I'm talking about money that is sound because it can su... Read More
On currency joni Juni 16, 2017 Add Comment bills of exchange, Bitcoin, cash, currency, Fedcoin, Henry Dunning Macleod, legal tender Edit David Birch recently grumbled about people's sloppy use of the term legal tender , and I agree with him. As Birch points out, what many... Read More
Evaluating my bitcoin predictions joni Mei 29, 2017 Add Comment Bitcoin, Fedcoin, Ponzi schemes Edit I wrote a bunch of posts on bitcoin between 2012-2015, but they tailed off a bit in late 2015 and 2016 as my attention turned to other subje... Read More
The dematerialization of cash joni Maret 15, 2017 Add Comment anonymity, Bitcoin, cash, censorship resistance, counterfeiting, Fedcoin, fintech, sticky prices Edit "One dollar bill," watercolour by Adam Lister ( source ) R3, a company specializing in distributed ledger technology, has just pos... Read More
Kocherlakota on cash joni September 02, 2016 Add Comment anonymity, Bill Woolsey, Bitcoin, cash, Fedcoin, fintech, free banking, George Selgin, Kurt Schuler, Larry White, Narayana Kocherlakota, Nick Rowe, Scott Sumner, stablecoin, usury, zero lower bound Edit Narayana Kocherlakota, formerly the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and now a prolific economics blogger, penned a recent ar... Read More
Andy Haldane and BOEcoin joni September 24, 2015 Add Comment Bank of England, Bitcoin, cash, Fedcoin, Gresham's Law, Ken Rogoff, large value note embargo, Miles Kimball, Silvio Gesell, zero lower bound Edit The 1995 British two pound "Dove" coin The Bank of England's chief economist Andrew Haldane recently called for central banks... Read More
Fedcoin joni Oktober 19, 2014 Add Comment anonymity, Bitcoin, cash, Fedcoin, Federal Reserve, Fedwire, fintech, Ripple, zero lower bound Edit Recent posts by Adrian Hope Baille and Sina Motamedi have got me thinking again about the idea of the Federal Reserve (or any other centra... Read More