Digital alchemy. How do you convert a digital euro into cash?

The European Central Bank (ECB) is hard at work developing the digital euro, as a full replacement for cash. But cash has unique features that are difficult to copy in digital form. How do you ensure that a digital euro payment does not invade our privacy? How do you ensure that counterfeiters cannot make unlimited digital euros? In this presentation, I will look at the ECB’s plans and at what technology is required to approximate the features of cash in the digital domain. The digital euro will, however, never be the equivalent of cash.

Jaap-Henk Hoepman, PhD, Associate Professor Digital Security, Radboud University Nijmegen