J.P. Koning

Fellow, Sound Money Project

J.P. Koning is a financial writer and blogger with interests in monetary economics, economic history, finance, and fintech. He has worked as an equity researcher at a Canadian brokerage firm and a financial writer and publisher at a large Canadian bank. More recently, he has written several papers for R3, a distributed ledger company, on the topics of central bank cryptocurrency and cross border payments. He founded the popular blog Moneyness in 2012. He designs economics and financial wallcharts at Financial Graph & Art.

Koning earned his B.A. in Economics from McGill University.

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5/9/18

Pricing the Anonymity of Banknotes

Banknotes are useful. Not only do they provide their owner with a standard set of payments services, they also offer financial anonymity. How might a government price the anonymity component?
J.P. Koning

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4/16/18

Bitcoin and the Dodo-Bones Theory of Money

The fact that Anderson’s theory of money seems to fail the Bitcoin test forces us to question our long tradition of issuing new coins that contain precious metals, or banknotes redeemable for some other, already valuable instrument.
J.P. Koning

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3/23/18

A Sound Debasement

Debasement helps the mint defend against an aggressive counterfeiter.
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2/24/18

Anonymous Digital Cash

Central bank digital currencies will be used by criminals. But central banks should still provide them.

J.P. Koning

Pricing the Anonymity of Banknotes

Bitcoin and the Dodo-Bones Theory of Money

A Sound Debasement

Anonymous Digital Cash