
Ep19 “The Future of Money: Central Bank Digital Currency?” with Kevin Warsh
All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions
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The Revolution of Blockchain
The US dollar is essentially already a digital currency. Very little of US dollars is in backnotes. Almost all US dollars are in electronic form. So how does this centralized system work? Things that I pay you Jonathan $60, then both of our banks have a list with transactions on it. But other than those two banks, there is no record of this financial transaction taking place between the two of us. And so when we're talking about a digital currency, I think on the blockchain, I think this is what people have in mind.
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