Crypto’s Privacy/Commingling Dilemma
People need financial privacy. (Yes, even regular people!) Alas, blockchains are panopticons. The entire history of one’s bitcoins or ether...
People need financial privacy. (Yes, even regular people!) Alas, blockchains are panopticons. The entire history of one’s bitcoins or ether...
Questions about accessibility to the payments system resurfaced last month when Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of felony charges for killing...
The President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (PWG) recently issued a “Report on Stablecoins.” The PWG is made up of...
On October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper entitled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” Thirteen years have...
The Brazilian state of São Paulo is experiencing a 40% jump in so-called lightning kidnappings. A lightning kidnapping is when...
Many people were shocked when OnlyFans, a popular website for porn, recently announced that it would ban “explicit conduct.” Less...
The history of electronic cash stretches back several decades to David Chaum and the early cypherpunks. Decentralized stablecoins, a new...
A multicoloured pie chart published in May by Tether, a stablecoin issuer, has become one of the most iconic images...
Count me as bemused by the idea of issuing a central bank digital currency. The rough idea is to let...
On June 5th, El Salvador became the first country in the world to require its citizens to use bitcoin. President...
Ransomware has seeped into the mainstream consciousness thanks to the recent shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline. Crippled by a ransomware...