Balaji Yellavalli

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  • Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

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  • Crypto and Central Bank Digital Currency

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    n 1696 Newton became Master of the Royal Mint of England. At the time, England was at war with France and didn’t have enough money to pay its armies, so the Government created the Bank of England to lend itself money. However, often the physical money could not reach soldiers due to severe lack of supply and damage en route. If a good coin could be found, the edges would be clipped and used to forge (literally, in a hot metal oven) new coins. There are parallels that we can draw from this…

    n 1696 Newton became Master of the Royal Mint of England. At the time, England was at war with France and didn’t have enough money to pay its armies, so the Government created the Bank of England to lend itself money. However, often the physical money could not reach soldiers due to severe lack of supply and damage en route. If a good coin could be found, the edges would be clipped and used to forge (literally, in a hot metal oven) new coins. There are parallels that we can draw from this history to the ongoing Crypto debates, in my recent point of view on Central Bank Digital Currency.

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  • Central Bank Digital Currency

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    The benefits of cryptocurrency have not gone unnoticed by Governments around the world, and it has become clear that “Government crypto”, also known as Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), has the potential to change how regulators, technologists and people in general interact with money.
    Is decentralization, reinforced with immutable trust and unique identity that crypto and blockchain technologies offer, the path to a frictionless future for most monetary transactions? My article frames…

    The benefits of cryptocurrency have not gone unnoticed by Governments around the world, and it has become clear that “Government crypto”, also known as Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), has the potential to change how regulators, technologists and people in general interact with money.
    Is decentralization, reinforced with immutable trust and unique identity that crypto and blockchain technologies offer, the path to a frictionless future for most monetary transactions? My article frames some of the challenges and I am keen to hear your views ! (Pls use your browser to translate from German to English - I have the original content in English, in case any of you are interested).
    #Cryptocurrency #CBDC

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