Electronic gift certificates are electronic money

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Gift certificates and gift cards are going virtual, in which mode they are becoming money. Where might they go in the future?

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London money soon please

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We see currency as a national concept. By why not regional, or even city-based currency?

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McPESA

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There are good reasons, other than good clean fun with new technology, for a country to shift to electronic currency. Don’t listen to the techno-booster digital cash fanboys like me, listen to economists.

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Time for the “Thistle”

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Now that Canada has put MintChip to one side, let Scotland drive a technological stake into the high ground and become the world’s first electronic currency state. As I said in this article from 13 years ago.

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Facebook money is overdue

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I was surprised to hear that Facebook had obtained an electronic money licence, but only because it had taken so long for them to do it.

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Bitcoin, credit cards and PayPal are not the same

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To most people, words like cash, currency, money, moolah, credit, loot, greenbacks and shekels are interchangeable. But they mean different things. Would a future money media cheat sheet be helpful?

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