
What will money look like in the future? Will it even exist at all? Peer into six differing visions for the stuff that makes the world go round.
Money is central to our never-ending search for a free lunch because it is a proxy for our most precious resources – time and energy.
What will money look like in the future? Will it even exist at all? Peer into six differing visions for the stuff that makes the world go round.
There are currently at least 13,000 different cryptocurrency tokens in existence. Can all of these new forms of digital money survive? 17th-century London might provide an unexpected answer.
Learn the story behind Operation Bernhard, the Nazi plan to counterfeit British pounds and then drop them on the UK to cause economic chaos.
In 2009, a sleepy provincial Italian town was the scene of one of the strangest-ever financial crimes. Two Japanese men en route to Switzerland were found by Italian police to have $134 billion in bearer bonds in a false-bottomed suitcase.
We illustrate the dull concept of currency debasement by looking back at the Roman Empire, coin clippers, hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic and connect it to the rise of Bitcoin.
A Cicada that waits 17 years underground to emerge; a Squirrel that can memorise the location of thousands of nuts by value. Meet nature’s low time preference specialists.
From memory palaces to punching passwords into metal sheets, we look at solutions to the unique security problem posed by crypto’s promise to be your own bank.
When you learn how our need for money first emerged, it might change how you value your time and energy today.
Where did the dollar symbol come from? Why is the word salary connected to Roman soldiers and salt? Discover the disputed origins of common money terms.
Have you heard the story about where the word salary comes from? If it relates to Roman soldiers, I’ve got some bad news. It’s one of the most popular historical myths about money.