Explore fungibility in cryptocurrency: its definition, importance for interchangeability and privacy, challenges with ...

Excluding energy industries, precious metals such as gold are Russia’s largest export at $18.7 billion (£17.8 billion) in 2020. Banning the import of Russian gold aims to add economic obstacles for ...

Fungibility is often held as a crucial characteristic of sound money. But what happens when money has a public record of every transaction, and morally questionable trades can be identified? Is ...

David Vorick is a Bitcoin Core developer, former IBM software developer and the co-founder of decentralized cloud storage platform Sia. In this CoinDesk 2016 in Review special feature, Vorick tells us ...

Let’s talk about “fungibility” — the economic concept that one unit of a commodity may be interchangeable with another. That’s true if the commodity involved is something like a bushel of corn or a ...

Bitcoin fungibility has been called into question and it is becoming glaringly obvious that this poses a threat to the stability and long-term usage of such currency. Exchanges want nothing to do with ...

The problem with grant money is that it is like any other money: good for a lot of things. Hand development dollars to a dictator and he is as likely to use them to buy his niece two bedrooms ...

BlockTrail yesterday launched its Mint exchange, which swaps “old” coins for newly mined ones. In a first of its kind, users can buy bitcoins that came straight from a mining pool. In a rebuffal of ...

We live in a complex, economically interlinked world, but international politics still have major effects on individual households and businesses in most countries. Edward Lotterman This is happening ...