This essay makes the case that current debates about the ‘moneyness’ of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are … occurring at the incorrect scale. Rather than being some form of trans-national digital money to be used alongside or compete … with national fiat currencies, I argue that, instead, each cryptocurrency represents its own self-contained "money …

Recently parallels have been drawn between Bitcoin and Yapese stone money. This article focuses on Fitzpatrick and … McKeon’s (2019) exploration of similarities and differences. The analogy between Bitcoin and Yapese stone money is based on … Yapese stone money using terminology from the field of cryptocurrency reproduces a longer textual history in which writers …