New Revised Updated Edition explores how Bitcoin fulfills every core function and property of good money—revealing why it’s ...

Money shapes every aspect of modern life, but its journey from ancient commodities to digital currency spans thousands of years. The story of money reveals how human societies solved the fundamental ...

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about ...

Imagine you earn a $100 bonus at work. One option: the cash is transferred to your bank account. The other: a digital gift card to your favorite big box retailer. In this scenario, the same monetary ...

What does the future hold for money and payment systems? While it will surely feature unprecedented technologies, foreseeing the full picture requires historical context. Traditionally, money and ...

The management of financial risks (interest rates, FX, etc.), maximization of investment returns, management of revenues and expenses, assets and liabilities, raising short- and long-term financing… ...

It’s been one year since I bought my first Bitcoin. On Sept. 9, 2024, I put $100 into this strange new form of money with an ironclad investment thesis: We’ll see what happens. A year later, Bitcoin ...

The Bank of England (BoE) has released a discussion paper that aims to broaden the debate around new forms of digital money and summarises responses to the 2020 discussion paper on Central Bank ...

Gold has been one of the strongest performing assets in 2025, rising 38% year to date, outpacing bitcoin23% advance. It's no secret, though, that bitcoin has done wildly better than gold (and pretty ...