Contributors: Bill Maurer, Lev Menand, Lana Swartz, J.S. Nelson, Benjamin Geva, Hilary Allen, David Golumbia, Finn Brunton, Gili Vidan, Marcelo De Castro Cunha Filho, Susan Silbey, John Haskell, Nathan Tankus, Katharina Pistor, and Joseph Sommer
Category: Virtual Currency
Virtual Currencies and the State
D. Golumbia, Why Do We Keep Taking the Cryptocurrency/Blockchain Scam Seriously?
July 3, 2020
David Golumbia, Virginia Commonwealth University
In the longer piece on which this one follows, I do what I can to show that nearly all of the claims for cryptocurrency and blockchain are false, and most are based on outright fraud.
Virtual Currencies and the State
G. Vidan, Decentralization: The Rise of a Hazardous Spec
June 12, 2020
Gili Vidan, Harvard University
In 2017, Americans wanted to know “what is Bitcoin?”
Virtual Currencies and the State
F. Brunton, Virtual Money at the Edge-of-State
April 28, 2020
Finn Brunton, NYU Steinhardt School
Virtual Currencies and the State
B. Geva, Payment in Virtual Currency
April 22, 2020
Benjamin Geva, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
Virtual Currencies and the State
M. de Castro Cunha Filho & S. Silbey, What lies behind the apparent trust in cryptocurrencies?
April 15, 2020
Marcelo de Castro Filho & Susan Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
At the core of Lev Menand’s and Bill Maurer’s contributions to this roundtable lie one important conclusion
Virtual Currencies and the State
J. Haskell & N. Tankus, Virtual Currency (in the Shadows of the Money Markets)
April 9, 2020
John Haskell, The University of Manchester
Nathan Tankus, The Modern Money Network
Off the radar in academic, professional and public experience until the early to mid-2000s, virtual currencies are a hot topic
Virtual Currencies and the State
J.S. Nelson, The Case for Cryptocurrencies as a New Category of Regulated Non-Sovereign Fiat Currency
March 31, 2020
J.S. Nelson, Villanova University
What are cryptocurrencies: securities, commodities, or another form of established currency – a non-sovereign fiat currency?
Virtual Currencies and the State
J. Sommer, How is Private Money Possible?
March 11, 2020
Joseph Sommer
Whenever I hear about “virtual currency,” I check my wallet, or sometimes reach for my revolver.
Virtual Currencies and the State
L. Swartz, Starbucks, Libra, and the Boring Future of Money
March 4, 2020
Lana Swartz, University of Virginia
In 2010, the satirical newspaper the Onion ran a story with the headline, “U.S. Economy Grinds to Halt as Nation Realizes Money Just a Symbolic,
Virtual Currencies and the State
H. Allen, Cryptocurrencies as Privately-Issued Moneys
February 26, 2020
Hilary J. Allen, American University Washington College of Law
Money serves three important functions. It acts as a unit of account (meaning that it can be used to measure the value of goods and services)
Virtual Currencies and the State
B. Maurer, Money at the Zero Lower Bound
February 20, 2020
Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine
I picked up a copy of the Financial Times in the Munich airport on my way home from keynoting the Bundesbank’s biannual International Cash Conference.
Virtual Currencies and the State
L. Menand, Regulate Virtual Currencies as Currency
February 14, 2020
Lev Menand, Columbia Law School
Eleven years ago an unknown person—or group of people—going by the name Satoshi Nakamoto launched Bitcoin