When Bitcoin Grows Up
John Lanchester: What is Money?, 21 April 2016
“... a recurring theme. In How Would You Like to Pay, a lucid short book on new money technologies, Bill Maurer points out that as recently as the 1860s the United States had eight thousand private currencies in circulation, issued by ‘banks, railroad companies, retail stores and other entities’.1 There is an interesting discussion of US money in Edward ... ”