Will the Payments War Take Place?
Journal: Cairn.info
Year: 2026

This article applies the title of the play “The Trojan War Will Not Take Place” to payments, but in the form of an open question. To help answer it, the content parodies the title of a famous Western film, which becomes “The Good, the Rough, and the Fiery”. The “good” refers to what works reasonably well: namely, secure physical cash, which serves as the ultimate form of liquidity, and the useful technology of the blockchain, to be distinguished from Bitcoin. The “rough” is more debatable, some