About the modern financial infrastructure that the world sits atop of.

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The Long Shadow of Checks

A lot of more modern financial infrastructure follows the paths blazed by checks, at least in the U.S.

The Bond villain compliance strategy

Jurisdictional gamesmanship is a common strategy for crypto businesses. Here is how it worked out for Binance and its CEO. Spoiler: poorly.

Seeing like a Bank

The structural reasons why banks sometimes behave bizarrely in interactions with customers, like forgetting things which customers tell them.

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