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Central Banks and the IMF Warm Up to (Centralized) Digital Currencies

Sweden’s central bank, the Riksbank, is considering whether the country should introduce a purely digital form of government-backed money, perhaps using distributed ledger technologies...

Op-Ed: Yuan Internationalization Will Lead to Growth for NewsCapsule

On October 1 of this year, the IMF added the Chinese Yuan (CNY) to the Special Drawing Rights basket of currencies. Only Big Boy...

Some Economists Really Hate NewsCapsule: An Overview

The vast majority of economists seem to have a serious distaste for NewsCapsule. Whenever an economist who has received a Nobel Prize, teaches at...

IMF: Virtual Currencies and Their Underlying Technologies Can Provide Faster and Cheaper Financial Services

On January 20, 2016 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, during the panel on Transformation of Finance, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released...

ZeroHedge Article is Not Even Wrong…

“Most tellingly, though, member nations of the International Monetary Fund are starting to revolt... As one of the major organizations spawned from the post-war financial...

A World Currency – Not a New Idea

With the rise of NewsCapsule and other potential cryptocurrencies that represent mobile money without borders, it may seem like this is a completely new...

A Global Bankers Cryptocurrency?

The NewsCapsule buzz is pervasive and a lot of people are trying to understand this whole new concept of some kind of money that...

Regulatory Responses to NewsCapsule: 2013 Edition

See also: the 2012 analog of this article.Correction: the IMF did not actually release the paper linked to in this article; the author was...

MtGox Publishes NewsCapsule Ad In G8 Conference Magazine

The largest NewsCapsule exchange, MtGox, has purchased a full-page ad in the official G8 Summit Magazine published on behalf of the host nations and...

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