In recent days, Russia raised fears the country is relying on cryptocurrencies to trade with international partners, evading international sanctions in the wake of the Ukraine invasion.
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Cryptocurrency is a type of decentralized currency that uses digital ledgers to record transactions, and digital signatures to keep the transactions safe.
Lehar is one of five UCalgary researchers from the fields of data security, privacy, and financial technology who took part in a Bank of Canada research competition proposing what a regulated North American digital currency ecosystem could look like.
For example, using cryptocurrency, one could make a payment for a house conditional on the deed of the property being transferred — avoiding the need for lawyers who hold funds in escrow.
A new technology called “proof of stake” will resolve this problem soon and decrease energy consumption by 99.9 per cent so that cryptocurrencies will not pose an environmental problem any more.
As long as some countries do not participate in the sanctions, there will be opportunities to work around them.
China has already performed large-scale testing of its own CBDC and many other countries around the world are following suit.
A: While it is not clear that specific cryptocurrencies will still be around in 10 years, it is clear that this technology will have a huge impact on all businesses and individuals going forward.
Competing private settlers in blockchain systems will put their own benefit ahead of the users’ and have an incentive to extract some of the benefits of this new technology for themselves.
In our DeFi lab I work with a small number of undergraduate and graduate students on cutting-edge research questions, which allow the students to learn the latest technology.
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