John Law

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John Law is an 18th century Scottish entrepreneur, financial engineer and gambler. Having reformed the French economy, invented paper currency, state banks, the Mississippi Bubble and other ideas essential to modern economics, he took three hundred years off in a small cottage outside Bude. He has returned to write for CoinDesk on the foibles of digital currency.

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Fighting the good fight with bitcoin
The Bitcoin Foundation comes out guns blazing against the state of California, and John Law theorises about the Vatican's secret bitcoin-mining operation.
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Snowden, narcs and Swedish chips: Bitcoin loves them all
Show Edward Snowden your support in bitcoins or get yourself an understated Swedish KnC mining rig. Just don't let the DEA seize your bitcoin stash.
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Bitcoin vs the 'Bin Laden'
Bitcoin money laundering? Not such a big deal. But bitcoin could well get big in Kenya, and is already seeing action in London pubs.
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A grave case of spooks
The whole world had to pretend to be shocked this week when it was revealed that American spies had been spying.
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Will Apple break the bank? - The CoinDesk Weekly Review
John Law's take on the week in digital currency, covering everything from China's interest and Bitcoin exchange issues to Apple's iMoney patent.
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Give me Liberty, or give me five to ten: The CoinDesk Weekly Review
Fans of irony will not have missed the way that Arthur Budovsky, head honcho at Liberty Reserve had his own liberty severely reserved earlier this week.
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California dreaming: The CoinDesk Weekly Review
John Law explores the past week of Bitcoin news, from Rosicrucians and credit unions to overheated hardware and the new generation of swashbucklers.
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Building a brain the size of a planet: The CoinDesk Weekly Review
The Coindesk Weekly Review: May 13th-17th. The week kicked off with the news that bitcoin fever had created the world's most powerful computer....
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Cash of the titans, bitcoin diets and ATMs: The CoinDesk Weekly Review
Digital currency has many mysteries. Our man John Law explores them all in this edition of the CoinDesk Weekly Review
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Tax, zombies, Churchill and flying fingers: The CoinDesk Weekly Review
A regular look at the hottest, most controversial and thought-provoking events in the world of digital currency through the eyes of skepticism and wonder.
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