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June 1, 2026 ・Original Analysis

Payments Tech Undermines Core Purposes of Money

Modern payments technology simultaneously shows the beauty of technology as well as its fragility. Through compression of information and allowing for lower data use when transactions are being made, they are able to allow transactions to occur more fluidly and they let the underlying currency fulfill its role as a medium of exchange more effectively. […]

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April 29, 2025 ・Original Analysis

Visa, Mastercard, and Russian Commerce

It’s very easy to keep faith in modern electronic payment systems when there is nothing going wrong with them. Russians in March 2022 did not have the same luxury. Due to the country’s involvement in the war with Ukraine, Visa, MasterCard, and several other payment platforms punished all Russians. They did this in three separate […]

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