Johan Pouwelse

Comments. [This is an important CBDC report from China](http://www.pbc.gov.cn/en/3688110/3688172/4157443/4293696/2021071614584691871.pdf) ``` The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) attaches great importance to the research and development of digital fiat currency. In 2014,...

First _live_ digital Euro transaction?! Worldwide state-of-the-art, parties are mentioning cross-border CBDC; never actually achieved yet! Market analysis: all commercial offerings are needlessly complex, brittle, not disaster-proof (e.g. offline support),...

Possible thesis focus: _make Wessel prototype ready for large-scale production usage + also fully decentralised_. ideas: permissionless accounting. Everybody can undersign a transaction, remove single points of failure. Practical next...

- **2050 vision**: disaster-proof financial infrastructure. The thesis focus ignores all existing legacy infrastructure and legal frameworks. Uncompromising focus on must-have core financial infrastructure for 2050 timeline. Cardinal infrastructure for...

- Solid progress with the infrastructure! :medal_sports: - Take another step in the formulated scientific direction (offline; 1M tx/s) and sprint target. - Serial number of bank coins as central...

Progress: - cmdline is functional! - Remember to guard correctness and not yet into a optimisation-focus. Don't be the student whose code gets dumped and cancelled. Code coverage! - https://github.com/KoningR/eurotoken/blob/main/README.md...

- first experimental results :confetti_ball: :partying_face: :tada: - Prior Wessel Python; now clean-slate Kotlin IPv8 cmdline client - Poster: [first trail March 2021](https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/4629#issuecomment-789934358) of Delft offline Euro platform. Based on...

Related CBDC work with instant payments: https://www.bis.org/publ/othp39.htm France: https://www.banque-france.fr/sites/default/files/media/2021/11/09/821338_rapport_mnbc-04.pdf https://www.jpmorgan.com/news/jpmorgan-central-bank-digital-currency-report German digital (IoT) Euro report: https://www.fpmi.de/files/fpmi/content/downloads/en/expertopinion/Studie_programmierbarer_Euro_en.pdf [Google search query](https://www.google.com/search?q=wholesale+m-CBDC) anything open source? true simple solutions? passport-grade ID for wallet? ***Fully...

- [Thesis format example by Joost](https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/files/7911575/Article_21_01_22.pdf) IEEE 2-column + Delft [mandatory page wrappings like Rowdy](https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:32711378-2f6f-452e-b65c-1866c471e934/datastream/OBJ/download) - Contract 15jan-15july at central bank (providing intense support and bi-weekly guidance). - define you...

- Progress in thinking, requirements, and architecture - CBDC with disaster-proof requirement we focus on is not available as a commercial product. Still at innovation stage. - related work. zero-trust...