Going cashless: Norway's digital currency project raises privacy questions

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Norway might not stand out much on the global crypto map. However, the Scandinavian nation is actively pursuing its own national digital currency as the rush to test and deploy CBDCs picks up speed every day.

In September 2022, Norges Bank released the open-source code for the Ethereum-backed digital currency sandbox. Available on GitHub, the sandbox isto offer an interface for interacting with the test network, enabling functions like minting, burning and transferring ERC-20 tokens.

, the initial use of open-source code was not a “signal that the technology will be based on open-source code,” but a “good starting point for learning as much as possible in collaboration with developers and alliance partners.”Earlier, the bank revealed its principal partner in building the infrastructure for the project — Nahmii, a Norway-based developer of a layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum of the same name.

As central bank digital currencies have the potential to compete with private cryptocurrencies, and the goal of any government is to control financial transactions as tightly as possible, Andersen doesn’t see Norway among the exceptions: Speaking to Cointelegraph, Michael Lewellen, head of solutions architecture at OpenZeppelin, a company contributing its contracts library to the Norges Bank project, doesn’t sound so pessimistic. From a technical perspective, he emphasized, there is nothing stopping private stablecoins from trading and operating alongside CBDCs on both public and private Ethereum networks, especially if they use common, compatible token standards such as ERC-20.

 

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Your people attended the WEF conference and are already talking about CBDC’s? I saw this predicted and it didn’t even take a week. Please don’t tell me this is how it’s gonna be.

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