The Monetary Future
At the Intersection of Free Banking, Cryptography, and Digital Currency.
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Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
The Cypherpunks, the Internet, and Privacy:
FT Festival of Finance 2016 Jon Matonis Interview with Izabella Kaminska (recorded July 1, 2016)
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Jon Matonis is an e-money researcher and crypto economist focused on expanding the circulation of non-political digital currencies. His career has included senior influential posts at Sumitomo Bank, VISA, VeriSign, and Hushmail. Currently, He serves on the Board of Directors for the Bitcoin Foundation, is Tech Contributor to Forbes Magazine, and Op-Ed Contributor to American Banker.
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
On June 3rd, 2011, I was interviewed for the Agorist Radio Cypherpunkd program to discuss some of the larger economic themes surrounding bitcoin, such as the potential for widespread tax-free exchange, the impact on nation-State tax policy and monetary policy, the irrelevancy of international capital controls, the de-politicization of currency, and the end of using money to track identity.
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
This episode explores Jon’s story as well as the story of digital cryptography: starting from encrypted email, to Verisign, Digicash, eGold, and the work of the Bitcoin Foundation. We also discuss themes such as financial privacy and its importance to economic and political freedom, the Crypto Arms Race, the end game for Bitcoin, and the three primary functions of money.
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
“Bitcoin has become the strongest computer in the world, stronger than the top 500 supercomputers combined” - so says Jon Matonis, one of the godfathers of digital cash. Jon has been writing about non-political money since the early 90s, when he was an integral figure in the “cypherpunks” movement; he has worked for Visa, Verisign, and Hushmail, and he was a co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation.