The digital money race

Written by Keith Bear a fellow at the Centre for Alternative Finance, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

The digital money landscape

Since the birth of Bitcoin and its vision of censor-ship free digital cash, the universe of different forms of digital money has been slowly but surely evolving. As we know, the formal definition of money has 3 criteria:

·      a unit of account

·      a store of value

·      a medium of exchange.

Whilst many argue as to whether B…