The Role of Digital Payments and Cryptocurrencies in the Coronavirus Crisis: A Reality Check
May 28, 2020
This webinar addressed the following:
- What has been the role of blockchain-based transactions in the crisis?
- Why have crypto-currencies not taken off in the global downturn, and why have they followed the downwards market sentiment of fiat-based currencies and assets?
- Where do advanced digital financial services go from here? Who will be the winners?
- What are the regulatory implications and possibilities for enabling the potential use of blockchain technology and crypto currencies in providing aid to the unemployed and small businesses through a digital dollar?
- How can new blockchain-based financial instruments such as central bank digital currencies help macro-economic activities of governments and central banks?
- What are the resilience and design lessons for blockchain and crypto-currency mining after the many China-based crypto-currency miners closed or scaled back operations?
- How can blockchain technology assist in supply chain management of personal protection equipment and other critical medical supplies?
- With many state unemployment systems still using 1960-era COBOL, is this a chance to leapfrog and implement blockchain for these systems?