All over the world people who have been harmed by the conventional money systems are devising alternative currencies, challenging the centralised monetary policy approach.
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You can now pay your way with apps, cryptocurrencies and other digital alternatives. Physical money might one day look like a relic of the past.
While the current speculation in crypto-currency and assets should make us pause, this is not a speculative driven bubble like tulips, or gold mining stocks.
The blockchain has been successful when it comes to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but we haven’t yet figured out other uses.
The new Internet of Things has the potential to compensate for Africa’s legacies of underdevelopment.
The blockchain isn’t just for Bitcoin transactions. Advertisers can no longer ignore blockchain’s huge implications for the world of marketing.
The cryptocurrency is now starting to challenge gold as the investment of choice.
Where our money comes from is deeply political and the politics involved is often highly complex.
Multiple use cases for the blockchain are currently being tested, so it’s worth learning the basics.
Bitcoin, blockchain and automatic royalty payments could transform how musicians earn.
Ransomware – which encrypts your files and offers to sell you the key – operates differently from other malicious software. Those differences turn out to give potential victims a fighting chance.
Distributed autonomous organisations, or DAO, are a new form of decentralised organisation using blockchain technology. The DAO is first off the block, and it’s already making waves.
The cryptocurrency will soon undergo a major change – and no one knows what will happen next.
Here’s how to protect yourself from the latest online scourge of hackers encrypting your files and demanding a ransom to unlock them.
How tax authorities decide to treat virtual currencies like bitcoin may determine whether they thrive or die.
Who is the mystery man behind the creation of the crypto-currency Bitcoin?
Money used to be backed by something of real value such as gold or silver. Bitcoins and other digital currencies will sever that link forever.
The tax treatment of Bitcoin has been holding back the industry in Australia, but gradually the rules are changing.
The technology behind Silk Road is still sound, but with the potential for a life sentence it would take faith to deploy them.
Regulating bitcoin and digital currencies is hard, but tackling currency exchanges may be the answer.
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Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Financial Technology, University of Liverpool
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Reader (Associate Professor) in Law, University of East London
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Professor of Finance & Financial Technology, ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor in International Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool
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Co-director, Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford
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University Fellow in AI and Human Decision Making, University of Salford
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Director of the Centre for Digital Finance, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Southampton
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin
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Hon Associate Professor. Research interests - AI and the law; Social relationships of trust; Sustainable futures, Australian National University
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Professor and Head, School of Business, Monash University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
