Over millennia, mankind has used hard cash in various forms ranging from shells to gold coins and paper. More recently, cash has become unpopular in political circles, as it effectively restricts states’ power to tax (explicitly or via negative interest rates) or to survey and potentially...

This write-up among other things seeks to analyse the nature of the 'BITCOIN' crypto-currency, especially the destabilizing effect and dangers it poses to the financial sector, the regulators and the anti-money laundering regime as a whole. It will also look at the possibility of effectively...