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Last month the Federal Reserve published it's long awaited report on central bank digital currency, or CBDC. Here's my quick response. The p…

David Andolfatto recently wrote a helpful article about whether Canada needs a central bank digital currency , or CBDC. I agree with David that a CB…

"A large population of people are excluded from the financial system because they don't have bank accounts. Fintechs compete to connect them…

I often hear that modern money just isn't up to snuff because it isn't programmable. That's why we need Ethereum, stablecoins, and other …

The European Central Bank (ECB) recently published a report that explores the idea of introducing a digital euro for use by the general public. Th…

When economists talk about payments, they often make a distinction between token-based and account-based payment systems. In a recent post at the N…

The only type of central bank-issued money that we hoi polloi can own are banknotes. But over the last few years, researchers at central banks have …

Six years ago I wrote a blog post about Fedcoin. Fedcoin is a type of central bank digital currency, or CBDC. (I called it Fedcoin at the time, but …

This post explores some of the technological advancements that have allowed remittances to be completed in seconds rather than days. If you follow me…

Reuters and Coindesk report that that the People's Bank of China's imminent central bank digital currency (CBDC) is going to have a feature…