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To assess the prospects of cryptocurrencies, it’s useful to consider how money was invented and became centralised in the first place.

Bitcoin prices have plunged after the world’s second richest person tweeted that Tesla would no longer accept the cryptocurrency.

All over the world people who have been harmed by the conventional money systems are devising alternative currencies, challenging the centralised monetary policy approach.

The evolution of cryptocurrency and how it is replacing modern cash.

Buying Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies directly can be fraught. Exchange-traded funds take away some risks, but increase others. Here’s what you need to know.

This major adjustment to how the cryptocurrency operates happens every four years.

Crypto works in Nigeria because of very human networks of trust.

El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. This is a noble idea, but unworkable in the long term.

Efforts to explain Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general have generally focused on how they are both a new form of money as well as a challenge to existing forms of money. Cryptocurrencies are novel…

The Bitcoin craze has hit Iceland, where an entrepreneur has set up his own cryptocurrency and announced plans to give every citizen a handful for free. Baldur Odinsson says he is setting up a new cryptocurrency…