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Noll Historical Consulting is making an impact everyday. However, much of this work is done confidentially and is never seen by the general public. Yet, from time to time, Noll Historical Consulting is in the news. Learn about banknotes, cryptobanknotes, stablecoins, CBDCs, Bitcoin, and more by checking out the entries below.


Articles & Press

Cointelegraph, “CBDC activity heats up, but few projects move beyond pilot stage,” May 17, 2022

Finextra, “The Future of Regulation: Navigating CBDC unknowns and crypto appeal,” April 13, 2022

Reuters Events, “Central Bank Digital Currencies - European Tracker,” February 18, 2022

Finextra, “The Future of Regulation 2022,” February 7, 2022

Bitcoin.com, “‘Being a Currency and a Security Are Not Contradictory,' Crypto Can Be Both: Monetary Historian,” January 13, 2022

CFX Magazine, Monetary Historian – Economics Bitcoin News,” January 13, 2022

Be In Crypto, “Payments in the Off-World Colonies,” December 24, 2021

New York Times, “Why Janet Yellen’s Signature Is Not on U.S. Currency,“ December 22, 2021

Payments: Unpacked, “Bitcoin and United States Notes,” Issue 213, December 2, 2021

CoinWorld, “Office of the Comptroller of the Currency could govern cryptocurrency,” November 14, 2021

Be In Crypto, "We Need a National Stablecoin System in the United States," October 22, 2021

Vemanti USD (USDV) Stablecoin White Paper, October 7, 2021

Financial History, "Wildcat Currencies: US Monetary History and the Future Cryptocurrency System," Summer 2021

IBDA Insight, "The Future of Banknotes: Physical, Digital or Hybrid?" June 2021, Issue No. 21

CoinWorld, "1927 letter changed the faces on future U.S. small-size notes," June 21, 2021

Cointelegraph, "An asset for all classes: What to expect from Bitcoin as a legal tender," June 18, 2021

Cointelegraph, "Experts discuss the future of hybrid banknotes in a live panel discussion," June 14, 2021

CoinDesk, "How the Civil War Shapes the Future of Stablecoins," June 8, 2021

CoinWorld, "Cryptobills could become alternative currency," June 7, 2021

CoinWorld, "Hybrid ‘cryptonotes’ could become bridge to digital accounts," May 31, 2021

CoinWorld, "Currency experts say cryptonotes are in our future," May 24, 2021

CoinDesk, "Hybrid Banknotes Can Bridge Cash and Crypto," May 12, 2021

New Money Review, "Could NFTs challenge bitcoin’s store-of-value promise?" May 4, 2021

Be In Crypto, "Consumers Will Shape the Future of Stablecoins, Here’s How," April 21, 2021

Be In Crypto, "What Will Be in Your Wallet in 10 Years Time?" March 29, 2021

New Money Review, "Three Ways to Have Anonymous CBDCs," March 10, 2021

Be In Crypto, "Wildcat Crypto: Will History Repeat Itself?" March 2, 2021

Cointelegraph, "Bitcoin as a last resort? Murmurs of crypto as reserve currency abound," January 22, 2021

CoinWorld, "Expert suggests smart bank notes could be used as future money," January 9, 2021

Forbes, "Cash Like Features Of Central Bank Digital Currencies Can Enhance Financial Inclusion, Privacy, And Disaster Readiness," December 31, 2020

Be In Crypto, "Why Exactly Does the World Need a Smart Banknote?" December 25, 2020

Be In Crypto, "Stablecoins to Take on Wholesale Role in US, Being Effectively Defined as Scrip," December 17, 2020

Cointelegraph, "Happy birthday dear Bitcoin: Crypto’s first white paper turns 12," October 31, 2020

Cointelegraph, "Central bank digital currencies have the power to upend global finance," October 26, 2020

The New York Times, "The New Washington Drama," November 8, 2017

Memo to Trump: U.S. Debt 'Shall Not Be Questioned', Bloomberg View, May 2016

"National Bank Notes and the Practical Limits of Nationalization" in Banking Modern America, 2016

“The Truth-O-Meter,” PolitiFact.com, October 2013

Colonial Williamsburg Magazine, "Billfold Size Essays in American History," May 2013

The Politics of the 14th Amendment and the Debt Limit, Economix, New York Times, March 2013

Financial History, "Repudiation! The Crisis of Civil War Debt," Spring 2013

Forgotten clause comes into play in US debt ceiling debate, Financial Times, January 2013

A Monetary Innovation That Changed the Civil War's Course, Bloomberg View, August 2012

American Nineteenth Century History, "The United States Monopolization of Bank Note Production: Politics, Government, and the Greenback, 1862–1878," June 2012

EH.Net Book Reviews, "Birth of a Market," May 2012

​Financial History, "Money as Industrial Waste," Spring / Summer 2011

Financial History, "The Forgotten Currency: Federal Reserve Bank Notes," Winter 2011

Financial History, "President Abraham Lincoln, Investor, Winter 2009

Federal History, "Lincoln's Greenback Mill," 2009

Financial History, "Investing in Hard Times: US Government Thrift Securities in the Great Depression," Spring / Summer 2009

National Review Online, "The curious Case of the $134.5 Billion Briefcase," June 2009

Economic History Society, “The High Cost of Debt: Very-High-Denomination Treasury Notes and U.S. Treasury Debt Management, 1955-1969,” April 2005.

Presentations & Roundtables

Organization of American Historians, “Wildcat Crypto: United States Monetary History and The Future Cryptocurrency System,” April 2, 2022

Ali Nejadmalayeri, University of Wyoming, “Fireside Chat,” March 4, 2022

Banknote & Currency Conference, “From Physical to Digital: The Roles of Cash and CBDCs,” February 24, 2022

IBDA New Perspective Webinar, “The Connected Banknote - Connected to What, Why and How?” December 8, 2021

Decentralized Identity Foundation, Banking and Finance Special Interest Group, “Cryptobanknotes for Central Bank Digital Currencies,” December 2, 2021

World Banknote Summit, “Offline digital currency and hybrid banknotes – bridging the gap between physical and digital money,” November 24, 2021

IBDA New Perspective Webinar, “Cryptocurrencies - What are they & who is using them?” October 29, 2021

Digital Money Institute, "Stablecoins and their Role in the Financial System," October 20, 2021

IBDA New Perspective Webinar, “CBDC - What is it & will it have an impact on banknotes?” October 14, 2021

International Banknote Designers Conference, "What Will be in Your Wallet in 10 Years?," June 9, 2021

US Treasury Securities Database

A Guide to Securities Issued by the United States Government, 1861 - 1975

General Introduction

Part I: The United States Public Debt

An Introduction and History, 1861 to 1975

Part II: An Alphabetical Listing of Securities

General Notes