Blockchains and cyberwar: Why the next wave of interbank settlement systems will be decentralised

Currently a number of central banks around the world are exploring two things:

  1. A decentralised interbank payment system
  2. A central bank digital currency

Though often conflated, these are slightly different concepts.  You can decentralise your interbank payment systems without allowing the public to have digital access to the central bank’s balance sheet, and vice versa.

This short post is about the first set of experiments: decentralising the interbank payment systems.

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