Digital trade coin: towards a more stable digital currency

We study the evolution of ideas related to creation of asset-backed currencies over the last 200 years and argue that recent developments related to distributed ledger technologies and blockchains give asset-backed currencies a new lease of life. We propose a practical mechanism combining novel tech...

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Main Authors: Lipton, Alex (Author), Hardjono, Thomas (Author), Pentland, Alex (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Royal Society Open Science, 2021-03-29T17:06:20Z.
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