Visa's blockchain/digital currency patent application shines new light on an ongoing evolution of blockchain. The transition to blockchain-based digital formats is not a...

Andy Mukherjee argues in a recently published Op-Ed in the Washington Post that the virtual yuan could potentially transform “the relationship between money,...

The Chinese Communist Party has distributed another book about computerized monetary standards intended to teach party individuals on the better subtleties of blockchain-controlled...

By Giovanni Campi and Sofia Karagianni The digitalization of finance is accelerating during the COVID-19 outbreak. Even before the pandemic, FinTechs and BigTechs had...

The idea of Blockchain came into existence around 1991. But it’s only around 2008, credit to the whitepaper from Satoshi Nakamoto on “Bitcoin:...

I’m often asked for material about CBDCs (central bank digital currencies), blockchains / distributed ledgers, stablecoins, and cryptocurrencies. So here’s a list of...

March has already begun, but it is still worth it to take a look at the summary of the last week of the...

This short blog post describes three different types of currency wars that seem to be happening at the moment. The phrase “currency wars” is...

Are Central Banks going to Adopt Own Digital Currencies/ CBDC? How did we get here? In 2008, the world experienced a financial meltdown, now known...

In this post I discuss several differences between physical cash, and what I imagine retail Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) might end up...

The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) is now throwing their weight behind Central Bank Digital Currencies for household use (“Retail CBDCs”). For clarity,...