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

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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Beyond New York: What Lies Ahead for Bitcoin

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By Jon Matonis CoinDesk Thursday, July 24, 2014 http://www.coindesk.com/beyond-new-york-lies-ahead-bitcoin/ According to the propose...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

The Bitcoin Mining Arms Race: GHash.io and the 51% Issue

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By Jon Matonis CoinDesk Thursday, July 17, 2014 http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-mining-detente-ghash-io-51-issue/ Tensions over bitcoi...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

Why the OECD Needs to do its Homework on Bitcoin

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By Jon Matonis CoinDesk Tuesday, July 1, 2014 http://www.coindesk.com/oecd-needs-homework-bitcoin/ The Organisation for Economic Co-op...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Government Sale of Bitcoin Establishes Fungibility Precedent

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By Jon Matonis CoinDesk Thursday, June 26, 2014 http://www.coindesk.com/government-sale-bitcoin-establishes-fungibility-precedent/ T...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

In Search of the Ideal Bitcoin Jurisdiction

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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

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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

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