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If regular citizens could get an account with the central bank, with a specified protocol and digital currency, there could be several providers in open competi
by xorcist 6y ago
If regular citizens could get an account with the central bank, with a specified protocol and digital currency, there could be several providers in open competition using this protocol.
Switching banks would become like switching email clients. They could expose new functionality over an existing prococol. But it would also introduce new problems, malware banks could proliferate just like malware flashlight apps.
These comments threads always attracts comments like how these are not trustless, not mined by anyone etc. That misses the point. CBDCs are exciting. Citizens never had an account with central banks before.
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoCurrently digital money are used for the reserve deposits of commercial banks at central banks. If it keeps working this way, it won't be just a client, and you won't be able to switch it easier than now.
- sanxiyn 6y agoI agree. CBDC is super exciting. We could get rid of deposit guarantee scheme, which is an abomination, once CBDC is in place.