Sound Money Project
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The War on Cashless Stores
If you’re a store owner in Philadelphia or the state of New Jersey, and you don’t accept cash from your customers, pretty soon you’ll be breaking the law.
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The Case for Prepaid Debit Cards
Financial privacy and autonomy are important. But cash and cryptocurrencies are not the only means to those ends.
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The Rise of Cashless Banks (And What To Do About It)
Bankers have been steadily introducing cashless banks over the last few years in response to falling customer demand for cash. With fewer people wanting to withdraw or deposit cash, the cost of offering these services gets harder to justify to shareholders.
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Will Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Bring Back the Promise of Electronic Cash?
Ten years have passed since Bitcoin was introduced, and it still isn’t used much in online commerce. Will the Lightning Network get it back on track?
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Should Central Banks Lock Out Non-Bank Payment Providers?
That one set of payments providers gets access to the core payments system while another is shut out seems quite arbitrary.
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ECB Opens Real-Time Retail Payments System
European payments just got a whole lot faster. But faster speeds come at a cost.
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Goodbye Cash, Hello E-krona
The Riksbank—Sweden’s central bank—intends to issue a digital currency.
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Swedish Monetary Ingenuity
Sweden has been at the forefront of monetary experimentation for centuries. Now they have the distinction of being the only country in the world to experience declining growth in cash in circulation.
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Is China Printing Your Banknotes?
Chinese traction in the small but hypersensitive banknote market indicates that it is succeeding in earning global credibility. But most sizable nations continue to rely on their own state print works.
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Regulated Stablecoins
Regulation means both Gemini and Paxos must comply with NYDFS anti-money-laundering (AML) rules as well as efforts to counter the financing of terrorists (CFT).
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The War on Cashless Stores
If you’re a store owner in Philadelphia or the state of New Jersey, and you don’t accept cash from your customers, pretty soon you’ll be breaking the law.
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•
The Case for Prepaid Debit Cards
Financial privacy and autonomy are important. But cash and cryptocurrencies are not the only means to those ends.
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•
The Rise of Cashless Banks (And What To Do About It)
Bankers have been steadily introducing cashless banks over the last few years in response to falling customer demand for cash. With fewer people wanting to withdraw or deposit cash, the cost of offering these services gets harder to justify to shareholders.
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•
Will Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Bring Back the Promise of Electronic Cash?
Ten years have passed since Bitcoin was introduced, and it still isn’t used much in online commerce. Will the Lightning Network get it back on track?
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•
Should Central Banks Lock Out Non-Bank Payment Providers?
That one set of payments providers gets access to the core payments system while another is shut out seems quite arbitrary.
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•
ECB Opens Real-Time Retail Payments System
European payments just got a whole lot faster. But faster speeds come at a cost.
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•
Goodbye Cash, Hello E-krona
The Riksbank—Sweden’s central bank—intends to issue a digital currency.
-
•
Swedish Monetary Ingenuity
Sweden has been at the forefront of monetary experimentation for centuries. Now they have the distinction of being the only country in the world to experience declining growth in cash in circulation.
-
•
Is China Printing Your Banknotes?
Chinese traction in the small but hypersensitive banknote market indicates that it is succeeding in earning global credibility. But most sizable nations continue to rely on their own state print works.
-
•
Regulated Stablecoins
Regulation means both Gemini and Paxos must comply with NYDFS anti-money-laundering (AML) rules as well as efforts to counter the financing of terrorists (CFT).