deloitte, research Would a central bank ever issue its own cryptocurrency?
While the verdict may still be out, a new report by professional services giant Deloitte explores how it might go about doing so.
Entitled "State-Sponsored Cryptocurrency: Adapting the best of Bitcoin’s Innovation to the Payments Ecosystem", the report envisions a bitcoin-like system in which financial institutions act as uncompensated miners for a ledger governed by a central bank.The idea of a central bank-backed cryptocurrency has […]