Sleepwalking into Disaster? Requirements Engineering for Digital Cash (Position Paper)

Digital cash seems inevitable. But it’s not going to be bitcoin or the like, which will be regulated out of existence rather than being allowed to become mainstream currency. Central Bank Digital Currencies promise to eliminate crime but come with many of the problems that bitcoin set out to avoid. What do we actually need from digital cash? We had better figure it out before building and deploying unsuitable systems.

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46 Information and Computing Sciences

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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International Security Protocols Workshop 2023

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0302-9743
1611-3349

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Springer Nature

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43033-6_1

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