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Comment on A U.S. Digital Dollar Should Serve the Public, Not Banks

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2021 paper from the same author, proposing 1-tier CBDC (direct accounts at the Fed), which could threaten thousands of US community banks. Meanwhile, China's CBDC is 2-tier, retaining their existing banking system. https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...

> Congress should authorize the Federal Reserve to give everyone-individuals, businesses, and institutions-the option to maintain accounts at the central bank. We call these accounts FedAccounts. Unlike the CBDC approaches currently under discussion, which would use complicated and inefficient distributed ledger technology and be walled off from the existing system of money and payments, FedAccounts would be seamlessly interoperable with the mainstream payment system, relying on technologies that the Federal Reserve has used for decades

Why does the federal reserve require a distributed ledger at all?

They are specifically saying they don't plan to use a distributed ledger. Of course the US government is not going to allow miners to control their own currency or something like that.

CBDCs have nothing to do with crypto. They are totally unrelated concepts.

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