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1 {% extends "common/news.j2" %} 2 {% block body_content %} 3 4 <h1>Book chapter on Taler as sCBDC technology published</h1> 5 <br/> 6 <p>The recently published Springer book "Tokenisation of Money: From Fiat Currencies to Stablecoins" includes the chapter "Taler as a synthetic Central Bank Digital Currency" by Christian Grothoff, Mikolai Gütschow and Valentin Seehausen. 7 It discusses the potentials and benefits of GNU Taler as a technological enabler for privately issued CBDCs.</p> 8 9 <p>The chapter is published as <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-22946-5_9">DOI 10.1007/978-3-032-22946-5_9</a> and the author's preprint is available <a href="/papers/euro-bearer-online-2021.pdf">here</a>. The abstract reads as follows:</p> 10 11 <p style="margin: 2em;"> 12 A synthetic Central Bank Digital Currency (sCBDC) is a privately issued 13 payment instrument fully backed by central bank liabilities. GNU Taler is 14 a token-based digital payment system that offers a range of unique features 15 to its users, pairing ease-of-use with payment privacy and informational self- 16 determination. As it is Free Software, any retail bank can easily adopt the 17 technology to create an sCBDC, benefitting from its unique features and low 18 operational costs, while receiving risk-free interest rates from central bank 19 reserves. Our work introduces the concept and contrasts it with related payment 20 instruments. 21 </p> 22 23 <p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-22946-5">Tokenisation of Money: From Fiat Currencies to Stablecoins</a> is part of the book series <a href="https://link.springer.com/series/16616">Contributions to Finance and Accounting</a> and targets financial professionals, industry leaders, as well as policy makers and regulators.</p> 24 25 {% endblock body_content %}