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What are central bank digital currencies?

This post is the second in a series called ‘central bank digital currencies 101’. To start with the first post that asks ‘what is money?’ click here. Facebook wants our money. On the 18th June 2019, they launched a digital currency called Libra that aimed to do nothing less than “reinvent money and transform the…
Stephen Boyle
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