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Understanding British Money: What's a Quid? A Shilling? (2020)
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The infrastructure behind ATMs
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I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government
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A simple explanation of how money moves around the banking system (2013)
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What is the Eurodollar System? (2020) [pdf]
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A short conversation with a bank
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Moving money internationally
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Finality does not exist in payments
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Bank transfers as a payment method
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Debit cards are hidden financial infrastructure
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Backblaze S-1 IPO
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The Fed Is Down
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Money Creation: 344% in the Last 12mo (Fed, M1, $)
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Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years
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Banks create money, but it's less impressive than it sounds
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Financial Statements: A Beginner's Guide
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USPS sells nearly $20B worth of money orders a year
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The Age of M-Pesa
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Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service
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Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May
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Banks Look Safer with Deposits
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Why Is PayPal So Successful Yet They Treat Merchants Like Crap?
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A simple explanation of how money moves around the banking system (2013)
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Using GameStop as a bank
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How Money Moves Around The Banking System
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Where has all the money in the world gone?
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Ledger: Stripe's system for tracking and validating money movement
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