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Category: Virtual Currency

Spring 2020
Virtual Currencies and the State

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
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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.
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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?”
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F. Brunton, Virtual Money at the Edge-of-State

April 28, 2020

Finn Brunton, NYU Steinhardt School
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B. Geva, Payment in Virtual Currency

April 22, 2020

Benjamin Geva, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
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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
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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
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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?
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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.
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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,
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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)
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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.
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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
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