Central Bank Digital Currencies: How Should Privacy Be Built In? - Ep.206

This panel, from a panel for the fifth anniversary of Hyperledger, features Rob Palatnick, managing director of global head of technology research and innovation at the DTCC and chairman of the Hyperledger board, Matthieu Saint Olive, Codefi payments product manager and CBDC advisor at ConsenSys, and Robert Bench, assistant vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. In this discussion on the current outlook on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), they cover: 

what main problems CBDCs can solve

whether CBDCs should be open sourced

why building a new technology for CBDCs is preferred over using existing tech

how concerns over CBDCs and their privacy implications differ across countries

what possible pain points or opportunities CBDCs pose for central banks

whether CBDCs should be blockchain-based

to what extent CBDCs will be distributed and open networks, and whether fees would be charged for transactions

how central banks are thinking about methods of adoption, like whether they will bank directly with retail customers or still use commercial banks 

how developers balance the drawbacks and benefits of blockchain-based CBDCs with different stakeholders

whether stable coins will be replaced by or coexist with CBDCs

and what the future holds for the continued development of CBDCs

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Episode links: 

Rob Palatnick: https://www.dtcc.com/our-experts/robert-palatnick

Brian Behlendorf: https://twitter.com/brianbehlendorf?lang=en 

Matthieu Saint Olive: https://twitter.com/msaintolive?lang=en 

Robert Bench: https://www.bostonfed.org/home/people/bank/robert-bench.aspx

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