I've been writing on this blog for a while now – over ten years. Many of those posts are now forgotten (by myself included), but some were pretty popular at the time, and a few still get a steady stream of readers. Someone recently asked me for a list of my top ranked posts according to traffic volume, in order to (presumably) get a better taste for my writing.
Well, here they are. Enjoy!
1. Starbucks, monetary superpower (2019)
Starbucks has a gift card program that provides it with fantastic amounts of 0% interest funding. This is by far the most popular thing I've ever written.
2. Bitcoin, 11-years in (2019)
Bitcoin isn't a commodity or a currency, it's a game.
3. Bringing back the Somali shilling (2017)
If the Somali government wants to bring back the official Somali shilling, it'll have to buy back all the counterfeit shillings issued by warlords.
4. One country, two monetary systems (2020)
How the Yemeni rial split into two different rials when war tore the country apart.
5. There are now two types of PayPal dollars, and one is better than the other (2023)
A spotlight on PayPal's new stablecoin and how it reveals America's monetary fragmentation.
6. Ripple, or Bills of Exchange 2.0 (2013)
An analysis of Ripple, back when it was still cool.
7. The gold trick (2017)
The very strange fiscal effects of changing the US's official gold price from $42.22. If you google around you'll see I've written about this in a few other venues. Always popular with the gold bugs.
8. Fedcoin (2014)
First thoughts on a Fed-issued blockchain-based dollar.
9. What happens when a 96 bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex (2020)
Shopkeepers get to keep stolen cash. Does the same apply to stolen bitcoins?
10. Kyle Bass's big nickel bet (2019)
In which I try to calculate the storage costs of hoarding 5-cent coins... 44 million of them!
11. Dictionary money (2017)
A very wonky monetary system in which the unit-of-account and medium-of-exchange are separated from each other.
12. Bitcoin is more like ham radio than the early internet (2020)
Searching for a better analogy for bitcoin, landing on ham radio.
13. The siren call of T+0, or real-time settlement (2017)
Instant securities settlement is no panacea, folks.
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