Are we ready for the political compromises a digital currency may warrant?

It took 300 years for trust in currency to become total and unquestioned, and now digital currency brings with it some new challenges for it

The Supreme Court has finally laid to rest the question of whether the decision to demonetise the entire Indian currency was legal or not. It has said it was.

That takes care of the legality part of it. The economics has already been discussed, and no one has been left in any doubt that it was a terrible decision.

However, its politics has been ignored, which is strange for two reasons. One was the timing of the demonetisation decision, just four months before the 2017 UP assembly election. But this is pure speculation, left to politicians and pundits.

The other