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About Me
- Jon Matonis
- I am an e-Money researcher and a Founding Director of the Bitcoin Foundation. My career has included senior influential posts at Sumitomo Bank, VISA, VeriSign, and Hushmail.
"Free-market protagonists, such as Matonis, regard cybercash as better than traditional government-issued or -regulated money, because it is determined by market forces and thus nonpolitical in nature." --Robert Guttmann, Professor of Economics at Hofstra University, in Cybercash: The Coming Era of Electronic Money, 2002
"Matonis is quite correct that the new technology makes easier the use of multiple private currencies." --Mark Bernkopf, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in "Electronic Cash and Monetary Policy", 1996
"Matonis argues that what is about to happen in the world of money is nothing less than the birth of a new Knowledge Age industry: the development, issuance, and management of private currencies." --Seth Godin in Presenting Digital Cash, 1995
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Top Articles by Jon Matonis
- No Governance For Old Men: Coordinating Protocol Upgrades In The Future
- Volatility, Deflation and Manipulation: A Response to Bitcoin's Critics
- A Taxonomy of Bitcoin Mixing Services for Policymakers
- The Politics Of Bitcoin Mixing Services
- Money Laundering Is Financial Thoughtcrime
- Bitcoin Obliterates 'The State Theory Of Money'
- The Fiat Emperor Has No Clothes
- How Cryptocurrencies Could Upend Banks' Monetary Role
- The Cashless Utopia Mirage
- Fear Not Deflation
- ECB: "Roots Of Bitcoin Can Be Found In The Austrian School Of Economics"
- Bitcoin Prevents Monetary Tyranny
- Key Disclosure Laws Can Be Used To Confiscate Bitcoin Assets
- CFPB Warning Ignores Bitcoin’s Consumer Protections
- Government Sale of Bitcoin Establishes Fungibility Precedent
The Monetary Future Archive
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- London School of Economics Publishes Paper on Digi...
- Introduction to Digital Cash
- The Future of Money
- Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Socia...
- What Does Hong Kong Need a Central Bank For?
- The Political Appropriation of the Monetary Unit
- Constitution or Competition? Alternative Views on ...
- The Borsodi Constant: An Inflation-Free Currency
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Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Studies
- Is CBDC the money of the future? [Deutsche Bundesbank, June 2024]
- The Future Monetary System [BIS, June 2022]
- Behind the Scenes of Central Bank Digital Currency [IMF, February 2022]
- Central Bank Digital Currencies: Motives, Economic Implications and the Research Frontier [BIS, November 2021]
- Rise of the Central Bank Digital Currencies: Drivers, Approaches and Technologies [BIS, August 2020]
- A Global Look at Central Bank Digital Currencies: From Iteration to Implementation [KPMG, August 2020]
- Digital Currencies and Stablecoins: Risks, Opportunities, and Challenges Ahead [G30, July 2020]
- CBDC Adoption and Usage: Some Insights from Field and Laboratory Experiments [Bank of Canada, June 2020]
- A Survey of Research on Retail Central Bank Digital Currency [IMF, June 2020]
- Privacy in CBDC Technology [Bank of Canada, June 2020]
- Crypto-assets: Key Developments, Regulatory Concerns and Responses [European Parliament, April 2020]
- The Technology of Retail Central Bank Digital Currency [BIS, March 2020]
- Central Bank Digital Currency: Opportunities, Challenges and Design [BoE, March 2020]
- Central Bank Digital Currency Policy‑Maker Toolkit [WEF, January 2020]
- Central Bank Digital Currency [Banque de France, January 2020]
- Impending Arrival: A Sequel to the Survey on Central Bank Digital Currency [BIS, January 2020]
- Tiered CBDC and the financial system [ECB, January 2020]
- Designing Central Bank Digital Currencies [IMF, November 2019]
- Proceeding with Caution: A Survey on Central Bank Digital Currency [BIS, January 2019]
- The Case for Central Bank Electronic Money and the Non-case for Central Bank Cryptocurrencies [Federal Reserve, February 2018]
Government Studies (Bitcoin)
- Mapping the World of Decentralised Finance [BIS, October 2023]
- Prudential Treatment of Cryptoasset Exposures [BIS, December 2022]
- Virtual Assets Red Flag Indicators of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing [FATF, September 2020]
- Wasabi Wallet Report [Europol, April 2020]
- Understanding the Crypto-asset Phenomenon, Its Risks and Measurement Issues [ECB, August 2019]
- Guidance for a Risk-Based Approach to Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers [FATF, June 2019]
- Virtual Currencies and Central Banks Monetary Policy: Challenges Ahead [European Parliament, July 2018]
- Monopoly Without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment Sytem [Bank of Finland, August 2017]
- Virtual Currencies and Beyond: Initial Considerations [IMF, January 2016]
- Virtual Currency Schemes: A Further Analysis [ECB, February 2015]
- Bitcoin: Technical Background and Data Analysis [USA, Federal Reserve, October 2014]
- The Economics of Digital Currencies [UK, BoE, September 2014]
- Innovations in Payment Technologies and the Emergence of Digital Currencies [UK, BoE, September 2014]
- Risks to Consumers Posed by Virtual Currencies [USA, CFPB, August 2014]
- Opinion on Virtual Currencies [EBA, July 2014]
- Virtual Currencies: Key Definitions and Potential AML/CFT Risks [FATF, June 2014]
- The Bitcoin Question: Currency versus Trust-less Transfer Technology [OECD, June 2014]
- Have Virtual Currencies Affected the Retail Payments Market? [Sweden, Riksbank, June 2014]
- Virtual Currencies: Emerging Regulatory, Law Enforcement, and Consumer Protection Challenges [USA, GAO, May 2014]
- Understanding Platform-Based Digital Currencies [Canada, BOC, May 2014]
- Virtual Currency Guidance [USA, IRS, March 2014]
- Regulation of Bitcoin in Selected Jurisdictions [USA, Library of Congress, January 2014]
- Bitcoin: Questions, Answers, and Analysis of Legal Issues [USA, CRS, December 2013]
- Bitcoin: A Primer [USA, Chicago Fed, November 2013]
- Notes on Financial Instruments [Germany, BaFin, July 2013]
- Application of FinCEN's Regulations to Persons Administering, Exchanging, or Using Virtual Currencies [USA, FinCEN, March 2013]
- Virtual Currency Schemes [ECB, October 2012]
- Risk Analysis and Typological Overview of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing [France, Tracfin, August 2012]
- Typologies and Case Studies [Australia, AUSTRAC, July 2012]
- Bitcoin Virtual Currency: Unique Features Present Distinct Challenges for Deterring Illicit Activity [USA, FBI, April 2012]
Government and Quasi-Government Studies (Pre-Bitcoin)
- How to Make a Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash
- Implications for Central Banks of the Development of Electronic Money
- Mobile Payments: A Growing Threat
- Money Laundering in Digital Currencies
- Money Laundering Using New Payment Methods
- Report on Electronic Money
- Report on New Payment Methods
- The Future of Money
- The Future of Money and of Monetary Policy
- U.S. Money Laundering Threat Assessment
Digital Currency Academic Papers (2000-2009)
- Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
- Cyber Laundering: An Analysis of Typology and Techniques
- Development of Electronic Money and Its Impact on the Central Bank Role and Monetary Policy
- Digital Money & Its Impact on Gold
- Does Electronic Money Increase the Freedom of Choice?
- Electronic Money: New Day or False Dawn?
- Fighting Terror with Error: The Counter-productive Regulation of Informal Value Transfers
- Institutional Change in the Payment Systems by Electronic Money Innovations
- Real Currency Economies: Using Real Money in Virtual Worlds
- Representing Value as Digital Objects: A Discussion of Transferability and Anonymity
- The Cash of the Twenty-First Century
- The End of the Cash Era
- The Institutional Character of Electronic Money Schemes: Redeemability and the Unit of Account
- Toward A Private Digital Economy
Digital Currency Academic Papers (1990-1999)
- A Common Currency System for Spontaneous Transactions on Public Networks - Is It Feasible?
- Achieving Electronic Privacy
- Cashless Society or Digital Cash?
- Concepts in Digital Cash
- Cyberlaundering: Anonymous Digital Cash and Money Laundering
- Digital Cash and the Development of the Apolitical Currency
- Digital Cash and the Future of Money
- Electronic Cash and the End of National Markets
- Electronic Money and the Market Process
- Flood Control on the Information Ocean: Living With Anonymity, Digital Cash, and Distributed Databases
- Hard Money & Cyber Cash: Bankers vs. Bureaucrats in the Changing Payments System & Money Markets
- How to Encourage Global Electronic Commerce: The Case for Private Currencies on the Internet
- Is Electronic Cash Possible?
- Money and Currency in the 21st Century
- Payment Technologies, Financial Innovation, and Laissez-Faire Banking: A Further Discussion of the Issues
- Possible Economic Consequences of Digital Cash
- Security Without Identification: Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete
- Technology Assessment and Electronic Money – Between Consultancy and Oversight
- The End of Ordinary Money, Part I
- The End of Ordinary Money, Part II
- The Future of Currency Competition
- The Internet and the End of Monetary Sovereignty
- The New Monetary Universe and Its Impact on Taxation
- Untraceable Digital Cash, Information Markets, and BlackNet
- When the Dollar Bill Will Be Laid to Rest
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