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Are Central Bank Coins the End of Financial Privacy?
As the European Union gets more serious about a digital euro, most central bank digital currencies intend to remove the anonymity of cash.
As the European Union gets more serious about a digital euro, most central bank digital currencies intend to remove the anonymity of cash.
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Today on the Brief:
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Our main discussion: central bank coins and financial privacy.
The EU recently released a new research paper on a possible digital euro. Like many other official central bank reports, it assumes there is no possibility of an anonymous digital bank currency. NLW dissects arguments from people including JP Koning and CoinCenter’s Jerry Brito on why this shouldn’t be true.
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Nathaniel Whittemore
NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.
