A paper from an Austrian Central Bank economist worth reading: "Privacy by Design for Public Digital Money" by Martin Summer.
The framing says it all: privacy in payments is dismissed as a niche concern, but that fundamentally underestimates what is at stake.
When central bankers start writing this, the conversation is shifting.
🔗 https://www.oenb.at/en/Publications/Economics/Working-Papers.html
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