A Digital Currency Architecture for Privacy and Owner-Custodianship
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05259v6
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 13:42:37 GMT
- Title: A Digital Currency Architecture for Privacy and Owner-Custodianship
- Authors: Geoffrey Goodell, Hazem Danny Al-Nakib, Paolo Tasca
- Abstract summary: We propose an approach to digital currency that would allow people without banking relationships to transact electronically and privately.
Our proposal introduces a government-backed, privately-operated digital currency infrastructure.
We argue that our system can restore and preserve the salient features of cash, including privacy, owner-custodianship, fungibility, and accessibility.
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- Abstract: In recent years, electronic retail payment mechanisms, especially e-commerce
and card payments at the point of sale, have increasingly replaced cash in many
developed countries. As a result, societies are losing a critical public retail
payment option, and retail consumers are losing important rights associated
with using cash. To address this concern, we propose an approach to digital
currency that would allow people without banking relationships to transact
electronically and privately, including both internet purchases and
point-of-sale purchases that are required to be cashless. Our proposal
introduces a government-backed, privately-operated digital currency
infrastructure to ensure that every transaction is registered by a bank or
money services business, and it relies upon non-custodial wallets backed by
privacy-enhancing technology such as blind signatures or zero-knowledge proofs
to ensure that transaction counterparties are not revealed. Our approach to
digital currency can also facilitate more efficient and transparent clearing,
settlement, and management of systemic risk. We argue that our system can
restore and preserve the salient features of cash, including privacy,
owner-custodianship, fungibility, and accessibility, while also preserving
fractional reserve banking and the existing two-tiered banking system. We also
show that it is possible to introduce regulation of digital currency
transactions involving non-custodial wallets that unconditionally protect the
privacy of end-users.
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