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CBDCs have NOTHING to do with blockchain or cryptography or cryptocurrencies. They are digital in the sense that your credit card is digital which is to say tha
by anm89 4y ago
CBDCs have NOTHING to do with blockchain or cryptography or cryptocurrencies. They are digital in the sense that your credit card is digital which is to say that the liabilities exist in their base form on a digital (computer) medium, not physical(paper) medium.
You could choose to incorporate a blockchain in a CBDC implemnentation but why would you. Central banks have central in their name whereas a core value proposition of blockchain is decentralization. The Fed isn't going to wake up tomorrow and decide it wants to decentralize the dollar.
- verdverm 4y agoNot all blockchains require decentralization. There is a nice mapping between immutable ledgers and accounting. Using an open source technology also seems like a win for governments who are notoriously bad procuring software.
- not_really 4y agoDecentralization is an important enough property of a blockchain, that it could be argued that a blockchain without decentralization is not a blockchain. Banks, governments, and even Facebook continue to come up with "federated blockchains", boasting fast transaction times and private data, but butchered consensus mechanisms. At the end of the day, they are using an expensive database that in some way or other defeats the point of using a blockchain.
- 0des 4y agoblockchain has nothing to do with any of this. it is just serialized mutually dependent hashes, as the paper suggested originally.
- verdverm 4y agoNot everyone uses "blockchain" as only for the public-permissionless type. Much like we have to accept that "crypto" now mainly refers to shitcoins, the crypto community will have to accept that "blockchain" has a wider meaning for most people. It's not as if public-permissionless blockchains are all that decentralized, so the bar is pretty low on that measure.