Fed and MIT’s CBDC research: Distributed ledger tech has ‘downsides’ By Cointelegraph

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Theoretical research into a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the United States has found that distributed ledger architecture has “downsides.”

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Digital Currency Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published the findings of their initial research into a CBDC on Thursday.

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