Thoughts on Rogoff's 'Curse of Cash' joni November 05, 2016 Add Comment anonymity, cash, Federal Reserve, Ken Rogoff, Riksbank Edit The US$5000 banknote, destroyed in 1969 along with the $10,000, $1000, and $500 notes With the publication of his new book The Curse of Cash... Read More
How anonymous is cash? joni Oktober 27, 2016 Add Comment anonymity, Bitcoin, cash, coins, De Nederlandsche Bank, gold, Ken Rogoff Edit Dutch 10 guilder note. Holland and Lebanon are the only countries to have issued banknotes with bar codes. One of the interesting things tha... Read More
The strange mania for Swiss National Bank shares joni Oktober 16, 2016 Add Comment SNB, stock market and equities Edit The shares of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), Switzerland's central bank, have almost doubled since July, despite there being no real new... Read More
Bitcoin, drowning in a sea of credit card rewards joni Oktober 12, 2016 Add Comment Bitcoin, credit cards, fintech Edit Satoshi Nakamoto kicked off his famous 2008 white pape r with the line: "Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively o... Read More
Big numbers don't mean big money joni Oktober 11, 2016 Add Comment inflation, IOU, OneCoin, premining, Proof of Stake, Ripple, scam Edit Last week we discussed problems with using really big numbers in cryptocurrencies . This week I'd like to talk about misconceptions surr... Read More
Does money enjoy a home advantage? joni Oktober 06, 2016 Add Comment Bitcoin, sticky prices, unit of account Edit 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 ... Read More
Problems with big numbers in crypto - how Bitcoin dodged a bullet joni Oktober 03, 2016 Add Comment Bitcoin, computer science, double, float, integer, money, OneCoin Edit Recently, the infamous OneCoin made news once more in the Bitcoin circles after their OneLife mastermind stream . One of the more interesti... Read More