Friday, September 22, 2023
Coinbase: "What if we call them rewards instead of interest payments?"
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Here's a question for you: which U.S. financial institutions are legally permitted to pay interest to retail customers? We can get an an...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
How did Zcash avoid getting OFAC'ed?
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The 2022 sanctioning of privacy tool Tornado Cash by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (or OFAC, the U.S.'s sanctioning authority)...
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
There are now two types of PayPal dollars, and one is better than the other
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PayPal now offers its customers two types of U.S. dollars. In addition to having the option of opening a traditional PayPal account to maint...
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Thursday, September 7, 2023
Circle says its USDC stablecoin was as diversified as possible. Is that accurate?
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There's a good article by Leo Schwartz on stablecoin issuer Circle, which provides some clarity into last March's big depegging of ...
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Thursday, August 31, 2023
Who are the money launderers in the Tornado Cash stack?
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Over the last few years I've written a bunch of posts about Tornado Cash, an Ethereum-based mixing service, because I find it to be a f...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Who should pay for scams? Victims or their banks?
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Scam call centre on CCTV, via BBC . Here's a question for you. Should banks be required to reimburse customers who have been scammed? I ...
Monday, August 21, 2023
Central bank digital currencies and the fallacy of immaculate adoption
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I recently noticed that the Bank of Jamaica, Jamaica's central bank, has implemented two new marketing strategies to drive adoption of ...
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Thursday, August 17, 2023
UK's core payments settlement system fails... again. Some thoughts
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As they increasingly forsake cash, regular folks are making dozens of digital payments every month. What they don't realize is how this ...
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Monday, August 14, 2023
Why bitcoiners should learn to accept bitcoin's ponzi nature as a good thing
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When I describe bitcoin as a type of ponzi or pyramid , idealistic bitcoiners usually view this as an attack on the nobility of the bitcoin ...
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