Building the digital currency space
Professor Katrin Tinn is at the forefront of the effort to reimagine Canada’s monetary backing system.
With the right innovations in central bank digital currencies, she believes, everything from paying taxes to earning income as an independent artist could become more reliable and more efficient.
Published: 17 Jun 2021
Professor Katrin Tinn proposes unique design for digital currency
Professor Katrin Tinn recently teamed up with Professor Christophe Dubach from the Faculty of Engineering to propose a new design for the Bank of Canada’s digital currency. By protecting the identity and transactions of individual spenders, their design would address ongoing privacy and compliance concerns with Central Bank digital currency (CBDC).
Published: 22 Feb 2021