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#14 - Decoding Central Bank Digital Currencies - Design of low fees, usability, programmability...

Leon Schumacher Season 1 Episode 14

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This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience.

This episode episode covers the second part on the characteristics needed in a CBDC. The focus here us on 

  • Usability
  • Costs
  • Settlement and Transaction times
  • Performance and Scalability
  • Sovereignty and Open Source
  • Programmability

The goal is to bring this important subject closer to the listeners, in an attempt to explain what CBDCs are, how they can be realised technically and how their designs will influence our society.

The corresponding book can be found on Amazon: http://tiny.cc/cbdc

More information is available on www.digitalekho.com