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29.04.2025

Moneyness: Trump-proofing Canada means ending our dependence on SWIFT

It's time to stop staring into the headlights and respond to the fact that Canada is being eyed as a choice morsel by a much larger predator...

Moneyness

12.04.2025

Moneyness: If it's crypto it's not money laundering

It appears to be official now. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, when illicit activity is routed via crypto infrastructure, then ...

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02.04.2025

Moneyness: Why sanctions didn’t stop Russia's Garantex from using stablecoins

Stablecoins, a new type of financial institution, are unique in two ways. First, they use decentralized databases like Ethereum and Tron to ...

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20.03.2025

Moneyness: Canadian banks as U.S. hostages?

BMO Financial Center at Market Square in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Donald Trump has said he wants to use "economic force" against Canada. In my ...

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15.03.2025

Moneyness: Trump-proofing Canada means ditching MasterCard and Visa

We're all busy doing our best to boycott U.S. products. I can't buy Special K cereal anymore, because it's made in the U.S. by Kellogg's. Bu...

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01.03.2025

Moneyness: What do you do with memecoins? Apparently you collect them, says the SEC

I have no idea if memecoins like dogecoin and fartcoin should be legally defined as securities, and thus come under the purview of securitie...

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19.02.2025

Moneyness: Your finances are being snooped on. Here's how

We all have a pretty good idea that our finances are being snooped on, but most of us aren't quite able to articulate how. We know that we'r...

Moneyness

19.02.2025

Moneyness: Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible

On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive. Tether, which has four times more wallet...

Moneyness

19.02.2025

Moneyness: Someone is wrong on the internet about the SWIFT network

There's a chart that has been circulating for a while now on social media that shows payments traffic on SWIFT, a key global financial messa...

Moneyness

19.02.2025

Moneyness: Is it better to bribe Trump by purchasing his memecoin or his stock?

Noah Smith writes a provocative article about memecoins as a novel mechanism for bribery payments. A foreign dignitary looking to gain infl...

Moneyness

19.02.2025

Moneyness: Monetagium

An English penny minted by William the Conqueror, who brought monetagium to England. Source: History in Coins The way that a modern mafia pr...

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19.02.2025

Moneyness: The intensifying effort to isolate Russia's banks

Last week the U.S. government expanded the coverage of its Russian secondary sanctions program to encompass most of Russia's banks. It's a ...

Moneyness

19.02.2025

Moneyness: How should money laundering laws apply to DeFi?

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

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19.02.2025

Moneyness: The end of El Salvador's bitcoin payments experiment

Back in 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to require its citizens to use bitcoin for payments. Last month, four years...

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19.02.2025

Moneyness: It's time to trash the "store of value" function of money

When we first learn about money and banking in high school or university, we are all taught that money has three functions: medium of exchan...

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19.02.2025

Moneyness: A glass half-full take on Caucasus sanctions evasion

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

Moneyness

19.02.2025

Moneyness: "I didn't launder the cash, your honor. The robot did."

Crypto enthusiasts protest the trial of Alexey Pertsev As the multiple Tornado Cash legal cases wend their way through courts in the Netherl...

Moneyness

19.02.2025

Moneyness: Canadian guilt, Russian oil

We Canadians are overwhelmingly pro-Ukraine and anti-Putin, so when the CBC published an expose last week about "banned Russian oil" sneaki...

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19.02.2025

Moneyness: After twelve years of writing about bitcoin, here's how my thinking has changed

What follows is an essay on how my thinking on bitcoin has changed since I began to write on the topic starting with my first post in Octob...

Moneyness

19.02.2025

Moneyness: China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia

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

Moneyness

19.02.2025

Moneyness: Tornado Cash un-OFAC'ed

The next chapter in the Tornado Cash saga just dropped. Last week a court ruled last that Tornado Cash, a bot that can be used for obfuscati...

Moneyness

19.02.2025

Moneyness: How my views on financial privacy have evolved over a decade

I began exploring the topic of financial privacy and payment anonymity in the early days of this blog. Over the past decade, my views have s...

Moneyness

19.02.2025

Moneyness: The magnificent Swiss 10-centime coin

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 ...

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19.02.2025

Moneyness: Trump claims US banks can't open in Canada—US banks disagree

In what seems to be an effort to extort Canada for additional benefits, Donald Trump complained yesterday on social media that CANADA DOESN'...

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19.02.2025

Moneyness: Here’s why we tolerate fake check scams

Source: Better Business Bureau The daily news is filled with personal stories about bad experiences with banks. Here’s a recent example . In...

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19.02.2025

Moneyness: Memecoins are the point

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

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19.02.2025

Moneyness: Pricing the anonymity of banknotes

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

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19.02.2025

Moneyness: Bitcoin as a tool of U.S. economic statecraft

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

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19.02.2025

Moneyness: Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation

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 were r...

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19.02.2025

Moneyness: Ending the penny won't lead to more nickels

Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Mint to stop producing the penny because it is unprofitable, costing 3.69 cents to produce each one. In re...

Moneyness

19.02.2025

Moneyness: Stablecoins – a digital version of Swiss bearer savings books

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

Moneyness

01.02.2025

Moneyness: Monetagium

An English penny minted by William the Conqueror, who brought monetagium to England. Source: History in Coins The way that a modern mafia pr...

Moneyness

01.02.2025

Moneyness: After twelve years of writing about bitcoin, here's how my thinking has changed

What follows is an essay on how my thinking on bitcoin has changed since I began to write on the topic starting with my first post in Octob...

Moneyness

01.02.2025

Moneyness: The magnificent Swiss 10-centime coin

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 ...

Moneyness

01.02.2025

Moneyness: Thoughts on the Tornado Cash defence and what happens when everyone adopts it

Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance, has has to pay multiple fines . Wester...

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01.02.2025

Moneyness: Renovatio monetae

This silver pfennig from the Archbishopric of Magdeburg (1152-1192) was subject to a policy of renovatio monetae . Twice a year whoever held...

Moneyness

01.02.2025

Moneyness: "I didn't launder the cash, your honor. The robot did."

Crypto enthusiasts protest the trial of Alexey Pertsev As the multiple Tornado Cash legal cases wend their way through courts in the Netherl...

Moneyness

01.02.2025

Moneyness: Is it better to bribe Trump by purchasing his memecoin or his stock?

Noah Smith writes a provocative article about memecoins as a novel mechanism for bribery payments. A foreign dignitary looking to gain infl...

Moneyness

01.02.2025

Moneyness: China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia

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

Moneyness

01.02.2025

Moneyness: Why I'm in favor of financial illiteracy

I'm not a fan of mandatory investor education classes. The issue was brought up recently by former chair of FDIC, Sheila Bair, who sees e...

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Moneyness - Economy

Moneyness: Trump-proofing Canada means ending our dependence on SWIFT

Moneyness: If it's crypto it's not money laundering

Moneyness: Why sanctions didn’t stop Russia's Garantex from using stablecoins

Moneyness: Canadian banks as U.S. hostages?

Moneyness: Trump-proofing Canada means ditching MasterCard and Visa

Moneyness: What do you do with memecoins? Apparently you collect them, says the SEC

Moneyness: Your finances are being snooped on. Here's how

Moneyness: Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible

Moneyness: Someone is wrong on the internet about the SWIFT network

Moneyness: Is it better to bribe Trump by purchasing his memecoin or his stock?

Moneyness: Monetagium

Moneyness: The intensifying effort to isolate Russia's banks

Moneyness: How should money laundering laws apply to DeFi?

Moneyness: The end of El Salvador's bitcoin payments experiment

Moneyness: It's time to trash the "store of value" function of money

Moneyness: A glass half-full take on Caucasus sanctions evasion

Moneyness: "I didn't launder the cash, your honor. The robot did."

Moneyness: Canadian guilt, Russian oil

Moneyness: After twelve years of writing about bitcoin, here's how my thinking has changed

Moneyness: China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia

Moneyness: Tornado Cash un-OFAC'ed

Moneyness: How my views on financial privacy have evolved over a decade

Moneyness: The magnificent Swiss 10-centime coin

Moneyness: Trump claims US banks can't open in Canada—US banks disagree

Moneyness: Here’s why we tolerate fake check scams

Moneyness: Memecoins are the point

Moneyness: Pricing the anonymity of banknotes

Moneyness: Bitcoin as a tool of U.S. economic statecraft

Moneyness: Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation

Moneyness: Ending the penny won't lead to more nickels

Moneyness: Stablecoins – a digital version of Swiss bearer savings books

Moneyness: Monetagium

Moneyness: After twelve years of writing about bitcoin, here's how my thinking has changed

Moneyness: The magnificent Swiss 10-centime coin

Moneyness: Thoughts on the Tornado Cash defence and what happens when everyone adopts it

Moneyness: Renovatio monetae

Moneyness: "I didn't launder the cash, your honor. The robot did."

Moneyness: Is it better to bribe Trump by purchasing his memecoin or his stock?

Moneyness: China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia

Moneyness: Why I'm in favor of financial illiteracy

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