Banknotes are useful. Not only do they provide their owner with a standard set of payments services, they also offer financial anonymity. ...

On the last day of 1945, with World War II finally behind it, Finland's government announced a new and very strange policy. All Finns we...

Cypherpunks wanted to change the world. We ended up with memecoins. Our story begins with some very smart and idealistic developers, known a...

The Swiss 10-centime coin has a lot to teach us about monetary economics. On its face, the Swiss 10-centime (rappen in German) looks like a ...

Ed Conway of Sky News recently published a very good investigation on sanctions evasion being carried out through the Caucasus. He visits t...

Everyone agrees that money laundering laws apply to DeFi. The question is: how to apply them? DeFi, or decentralized finance , is an emergin...

Before anti-money laundering laws arrived in Switzerland, anyone could walk into a Swiss bank and open an account without showing any ID. Th...

I recently shared a chart on Twitter showing Chinese exports of ball bearings to Russia. Here it is: Having accelerated after Putin's i...

Riot Platform's Rockdale, Texas facility, North America’s largest Bitcoin mining farm by developed capacity [ source ] Can a network tha...