G20 on blockchain: Essential to build accountable digital economy for all
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At a time when governments must fight to
restore the public’s faith in cross-border economic cooperation,
blockchains can play a critical role in strengthening economic
resilience while ensuring the global economy works to the benefit of
all,” the G20 statement read.
Bitcoin, as a digital asset, may have been scrutinized around the globe
but it the core idea or rather software that gives life to this monster –
the blockchain – has increasingly gained acceptance around the globe
and is now its benefits are officially recognized by the G20 group of
countries.
In a recent statement, authored by Julie Maupin, a senior fellow with
CIGI’s International Law Research Program, said that the G20 nations
should engage with blockchain technologies to build an inclusive, transparent, and accountable digital economy for all.
“At a time when governments must fight to restore the public’s faith in
cross-border economic cooperation, blockchains can play a critical role
in strengthening economic resilience while ensuring the global economy
works to the benefit of all,” the statement said.
“To contribute to economic resilience, the G20 should constitute and
fund a Central Banks Blockchain Consortium to study the monetary and
fiscal policy implications of the rise of cryptocurrencies and other
blockchain technologies,” the statement further added.
Blockchain is a software that uses
cryptographic algorithms to maintain a decentralized public ledger that
records transactions and ownership of digital assets over a peer-to-peer
network
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