It took 66 days to move bitcoin from a price of 17,500 NZD to 35,000 NZD and 52 days from 35,000 NZD to 70,000 NZD. The dramatic price increases come on the heels of inflation, institutional demand, a...

One common objection that cryptocurrency advocates encounter is that bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value. They assert that other assets, such as gold, do. When pressed for ...

Juan de Mariana (1536 – 1624) was a Spanish Jesuit scholastic of the School of Salamanca. Little known to many, Spain’s School of Salamanca was the source of a philosophical and economic renaissance t...

New Zealand’s Inland Revenue or Inland Revenue Department (IRD; Māori: Te Tari Taake) is the public service department charged with advising the government on tax policy, collecting and disbursing pay...

Originally published in October 2017 by Adam Ludwin, this letter to Jamie Dimon addresses the misconceptions about cryptocurrencies and separates fact from fiction of this new asset class.

In this article, we explore the known (and possible) economic and philosophical influences of Satoshi Nakamoto: the pseudonym of bitcoin’s obscure founder. This is part two of a two-part article serie...

The article below is a republishing by Ross Ulbright. Original article here.  I read this article recently, and I have an idea for how to solve the problem it presents. The article is about how WhatsA...

Satoshi Nakamoto remains an obscure character. Although little is known of his influences and motivations for creating bitcoin, this two-part article series seeks to explore both his technological inf...

In his 1871 book Principles of Economics, the economist Carl Menger described the circumstances in which money is likely to have come about for the very first time “without the need for a special agre...