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DESCRIPTION:Bitcoin and other digital currencies related topics continue to
  grab the headlines and attract attention of many people including a large
  number of investors. Cryptocurrencies popularity\, easy access\, and fast
  adoption rate have made the governments around the world pay attention to
  their significant political and financial ramifications\, and seriously c
 onsider issuing their own digital currencies based on their own Central Ba
 nks policies and regulations. These digital currencies have been publicize
 d as “Central Bank Digital Currencies” or “CBDC” for various count
 ries with specific challenges and risks related to financial stability\, o
 perational resilience\, consumer protection\, interoperability\, privacy\,
  inclusion\, money laundering\, taxation\, terrorist and proliferation fin
 ancing\, cybersecurity\, market integrity\, governance\, legal certainty\,
  etc. In this talk\, we will review these topics as well as the state of C
 BDC around the globe\, the pros and cons of going completely cashless\, Bl
 ockchain role as potential core technology\, and political economic implic
 ations and challenges of a cashless world.\n\nThis SusTech Talk is leading
  up to the SusTech 2022 conference https://ieee-sustech.org/\n\nSpeaker(s)
 : Farhad Mafie \, \n\nAgenda: \nTalk Starts at 6 PM\n\nVirtual: https://ev
 ents.vtools.ieee.org/m/298887
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/298887
ORGANIZER:c.jackson@ieee.org
SEQUENCE:2
SUMMARY:SusTech Talk-The Sustainability Challenges of Central Bank Digital 
 Currency (CBDC). 
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/298887
X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Bitcoin and other digital currencies relat
 ed topics continue to grab the headlines and attract attention of many peo
 ple including a large number of investors. Cryptocurrencies popularity\, e
 asy access\, and fast adoption rate have made the governments around the w
 orld pay attention to their significant political and financial ramificati
 ons\, and seriously consider issuing their own digital currencies based on
  their own Central Banks policies and regulations. These digital currencie
 s have been publicized as &ldquo\;Central Bank Digital Currencies&rdquo\; 
 or &ldquo\;CBDC&rdquo\; for various countries with specific challenges and
  risks related to financial stability\, operational resilience\, consumer 
 protection\, interoperability\, privacy\, inclusion\, money laundering\, t
 axation\, terrorist and proliferation financing\, cybersecurity\, market i
 ntegrity\, governance\, legal certainty\, etc. In this talk\, we will revi
 ew these topics as well as the state of CBDC around the globe\, the pros a
 nd cons of going completely cashless\, Blockchain role as potential core t
 echnology\, and political economic implications and challenges of a cashle
 ss world.</p>\n<p>This SusTech Talk is leading up to the SusTech 2022 conf
 erence <!--StartFragment --><a class="cf0" href="https://ieee-sustech.org/
 "><span class="cf0">https://ieee-sustech.org/</span></a>&nbsp\;<!--EndFrag
 ment --></p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>Talk Starts at 6 PM</p>
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