David Hengsbach
@davidhengsbach.bsky.social
Sociologist at Goethe-University Frankfurt. Working on digitalization of money and payments. PhD project on Digital Euro.
Very valid. However, I see a lot of fundamental scepticism at least in the ECB regarding the provision of access to settlement systems such as Target (and potentially in the future wCBDC) to new money issuers. At same time broad coalition for dig euro (merchants, smaller banks, commission)
September 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Very valid. However, I see a lot of fundamental scepticism at least in the ECB regarding the provision of access to settlement systems such as Target (and potentially in the future wCBDC) to new money issuers. At same time broad coalition for dig euro (merchants, smaller banks, commission)
sure, there is plenty. Two helpful recent LinkedIn posts from technology experts on DLT/digital payments: www.linkedin.com/posts/ivicaa... and an helpful commentary from digital euro expert at DNB www.linkedin.com/posts/mennob.... recent reports the scheme: www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital...
Couple of remarks on this one:
1/ From their technical properties they might be similar, but from their financial and regulatory properties they are definitely not (e.g., e-money tokens versus… | Ivi...
Couple of remarks on this one:
1/ From their technical properties they might be similar, but from their financial and regulatory properties they are definitely not (e.g., e-money tokens versus centra...
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September 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
sure, there is plenty. Two helpful recent LinkedIn posts from technology experts on DLT/digital payments: www.linkedin.com/posts/ivicaa... and an helpful commentary from digital euro expert at DNB www.linkedin.com/posts/mennob.... recent reports the scheme: www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital...
highly unlikely in my opinion. Appears to me that those are rumors, that are not grounded in the actual design thinking at the ECB. ECB has invested a lot in hybrid account-based architecture (see digital euro scheme) and blockchain is unfit for such an endevaour with high need for scalability.
August 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
highly unlikely in my opinion. Appears to me that those are rumors, that are not grounded in the actual design thinking at the ECB. ECB has invested a lot in hybrid account-based architecture (see digital euro scheme) and blockchain is unfit for such an endevaour with high need for scalability.
one can even strategically use ignorance 😀 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Strategic unknowns: towards a sociology of ignorance
Developing an agenda for the social study of ignorance, this paper introduces the sociology of strategic unknowns: the investigation of the multifaceted ways that ignorance can be harnessed as a re...
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August 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
one can even strategically use ignorance 😀 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....