The Monetary Future

At the intersection of free banking, cryptography, and digital currency

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Sunday, June 22, 2014

In Search of the Ideal Bitcoin Jurisdiction

By Jon Matonis CoinDesk Tuesday, June 17, 2014 http://www.coindesk.com/search-ideal-bitcoin-jurisdiction/ Jurisdictions embracing bitc...

Thursday, June 5, 2014

DISH, Overstock, and Bootstrapping a New Currency

By Jon Matonis CoinDesk Saturday, May 31, 2014 http://www.coindesk.com/dish-overstock-bootstrapping-new-currency/ On the heels of t...

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Inching Towards Bitcoin Derivatives

By Jon Matonis CoinDesk Tuesday, May 27, 2014 http://www.coindesk.com/inching-towards-bitcoin-derivatives/ Bitcoin derivatives are mor...

Monday, May 12, 2014

When Payments Become Political Weapons of Mass Destruction

By Jon Matonis CoinDesk Wednesday, May 7, 2014 http://www.coindesk.com/payments-become-political-weapons-mass-destruction/ Executives ...

Monday, May 5, 2014

Bitcoin Adoption, Not China's Central Bank, Is What Underlies Legitimacy

By Jon Matonis CoinDesk Wednesday, April 30, 2014 http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-adoption-chinas-central-bank-underlies-legitimacy/ ...

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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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