My African book project is starting to wrap up with We Need New Names: A Novelby NoViolet Bulawayo. It’s a coming of age story about modern Zimbabwe, involving a young girl whose childhood is spent in a nation in disarray. She eventually leaves for the United States, and then has to deal with the complications of… [Read More]
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Bitcoin, Zimbabwe, and full faith and credit
I was thinking about Zimbabwe because of the news about Mel Reynolds, and I have been doing work on bitcoin for various clients. And here’s what I don’t get about bitcoin: what backs it? I understand that nothing backs US currency other than the full faith and credit of the US government, but if the… [Read More]
Zimbabwe’s One Hundred Trillion Dollar Note
I cheated – it’s from eBay. All my travels are in the midwest these days.
