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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...

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

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

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

“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...

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

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

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...

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