Most governments today are researching or implementing a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC): a new digital form of cash. The Chinese Communist Party is furthest along, having launched their digital yuan in time for the 2022 Olympic Games earlier this year. Unfortunately, there is a big problem with these new forms of money: they allow for unprecedented surveillance, financial control, and censorship. Join a central bank scholar, a Bitcoin engineer, and two privacy advocates to discuss the civil liberties implications of CBDCs.
