In-game virtual items as a form of criminal money

A few weeks back Vice had an interesting story about Valve, a game maker, putt…

Esperanto, money's interval of certainty, and how this applies to Facebook's Libra

Facebook recently announced a new cryptocurrency, Libra. I had earlier specula…

The difference between two colourful bits of rectangular paper

David Andolfatto had a provocative and open-ended tweet a few days back: The di…

The Haitian dollar

Haiti is home to a strange monetary phenomenon. Shopkeepers and merchants set p…

Norbert's gambit

I executed one of the oddest financial transactions of my life earlier this wee…

Store of value

LSD tabs like these ones have an incredibly high value-to-weight ratio When bit…