Central Bank Digital Currency – US Senate Testimony of Dr. Neha Narula [pdf]

Re:Central Bank Digital Currency – US Senate Testimony of Dr... by WannaFly on Friday July 23, 2021 @09:58AM (#27930706)

This person... so much talk about convenience of payment, and a total misunderstanding of why goverments want CBDC. And she call herself a PhD? And no word about the threat of CBDC.

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Re:Central Bank Digital Currency – US Senate Testimony of Dr... by bdcravens on Friday July 23, 2021 @10:00AM (#27930721)

> And she call herself a PhD?

You don't call yourself anything. You either have a PhD, or you don't. It's not conditional on having ideas others agree on or being 100% correct.

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Re:Central Bank Digital Currency – US Senate Testimony of Dr... by dboreham on Friday July 23, 2021 @10:28AM (#27931038)

You could have a PhD but keep quiet about it.

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Re:Central Bank Digital Currency – US Senate Testimony of Dr... by bdcravens on Friday July 23, 2021 @02:01PM (#27933746)

I'm certain when she's at the grocery store or the post office, she doesn't tell everyone she has a PhD. However, in her job, and in testimony before Congress that seems relevant:

"My name is Neha Narula and I am the Director of the Digital Currency Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We are a research group based within the MIT Media Lab focusing on cryptocurrency and digital currency design and implementation, addressing challenges in security, scalability, and privacy. I have taught five graduate cryptocurrency courses across departments at MIT and during the course of my PhD work I conducted research in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory on databases and distributed systems."

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