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by nabla9 2973 days ago
The money part of the technology is not important for central banks. Underlying technology allows more useful solutions than cryptocurrency.

What Fed and others in banking want is new forms of distributed accounting and settlement processes. You can apply the cryptographic technology for verifying and connecting database rows across institutions in a way that is both transparent, private and secure. If there is a public ledger online, it can be audited by anyone.