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The value of paper money

How money became ‘the most powerful metaphor’ in the world

Economics

Faith is all that separates cash from printer paper

a young Chinese man wears yellow headphones in front of a computer

Chinese internet users turn to the blockchain to fight against government censorship

A group of panelists address an audience at the State of the Net Conference in January. The panel consists of (from left to right) Jason Kaplan, Hilary Swab Gawrilow, James Cross, Mercina Tillmann-Dick and Justin Herman.

Women look to make their voices heard in new space created by male-dominated blockchain boom

Culture
Server farm in Iceland

Bitcoin’s sky-rocketing energy use is a viral story. We checked the math.

Economics