Hasti Rabie Hamedani

Monetary and Banking Research Institute

[ 1 ] - Crypto Currencies and the Blockchain Technology: An Evolutionary Review of Money and the Payment Systems

In this paper we utilize the main findings from the recent literature to set the economic foundation for the existence of money, its modern interpretation as “memory” (Chokerlakota 1998) and how the Blockchain technology has empowered crypto currencies to perform this role in the information age.  To locate the issue in a historical perspective and in line with this strand of thought, we consid...