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Sector-Specific Cashback Through Central Bank Digital Currency

In a recently published paper, titled ‘Cashbacks falling from the sky: Can retail CBDC rollout widen central banks’ toolkit?’, nChain Researcher Dr Vlad Skovorodov and former nChain Researcher Dr Zamid Aligishiev examine the feasibility of electronic cashback and varying cashback rates as facilitated by a potential retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) to enhance the economic toolkit for targeting inflation rates.

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Scaling and the Path to Better Energy Performance

nChain is pleased to see the larger, record-breaking blocks recently mined on the Bitcoin SV blockchain, following an increase in the cap on block size.  The increase marks an important development for our enterprise customers, including those accessing blockchain technology through Kensei, the platform we announced on July 22, 2021.  Increasing block sizes has two …

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