Submissions by jpkoning

China's $1.5m digital currency giveaway impressed analysts. Shoppers not so much

Ethereum Is a Casino

Bitcoin Financial Literacy and Crypto-Twitter

EU considers phasing out 1 and 2 cent coins

Dispersion Causes Discohesion

FinCEN: Why gold in your phone could be funding drug gangs

No new 2p or £2 coins to be made for 10 years

Binance sued by Japanese crypto exchange Fisco for laundering $9M

What Happens When a Noted Female Economist Fights Toxic Culture in the Field?

A History of Crowdfunding in the Wake of Violence

Bitcoin met the real world in Africa

Chilean bank shuts down all branches following ransomware attack

The Ontario Basic Income Pilot Shows the Real World Problems with a Basic Income

A Brief History of the Goldback

The return of shell money in Papua New Guinea

How to fix the Covid stimulus payment problem

University of Utah pays $457k to ransomware gang

Nigerians Are Using Bitcoin to Bypass Trade Hurdles with China

The Culpeper Switch: The Federal Reserve System (1971)

How the pandemic has clogged the global economy with paper currency

Netwalker ransomware earned $25M in just five months

Greenback returns: How dollar stores came back to Cuba

Homeland Security Seized $2B in Cash from Travelers at U.S. Airports

Payments in 2039 and 2064 [pdf]

Ex-Fed Economist Says Her Profession Is Racist, Sexist, Elitist

Economics Is a Disgrace

New York's Laundromats Are Managing to Avoid the Coin Shortage

The Threat of Privacy (2017) [pdf]