Joseph Huber - How Should a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) be Structured and Designed?
Channel: Monetative TV
Date: 2018-12-16

Joseph Huber, the academic head behind the "Sovereign Money" or "Vollgeld"-System explains how a CBDC should be structured and designed. Learn how CBDC could lead to a sovereign money or Vollgeld-System in this video and on the website: http://conference2018.monetative.de/ 

Speech: "Design principles for a Central Bank Digital Currency" at the Conference "The Future of Money - 10 Years after Lehman and Nakamoto" by Prof. Dr. Joseph Huber.

Prof. Dr. Joseph Huber held the chair of economic and environmental sociology from 1992 to 2012. From 1981 to 1992 he was a professor adjoint at Free University Berlin and held fellowships and guest and interim professorships at Science Center Berlin, University Zürich and Technical University Vienna. From the 1980s he was conducting studies and serving as a policy advisor to various governments, politicians and companies on matters of economic and ecological modernization. From 1999 to 2001 he worked with James Robertson on monetary reform. The report Creating New Money has offered a frame of reference for quite a number of monetary reform initiatives. In 2009 founder of Monetative e.V., a monetary reform group advocating Vollgeld (sovereign money).

The conference was jointly organized by the German NGO Monetative e.V. and the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center. It was supported by the International Movement for Monetary Reform

Monetative e.V.:
Monetative is a not-for-profit NGO. It was founded in 2012 as a think tank and campaigning organization. It has more than 160 members, many of  whom work or carry out research in the field of monetary systems. The aim of Monetative is to inform society, academics and politicians how the current money system works and why the power of commercial banks to create money systematically produces financial crises. As an alternative money system, Monetative campaigns for a „Vollgeld“- or „Sovereign Money“-System.

https://www.monetative.de/ | Berlin, Germany

Frankfurt School Blockchin Center
The Frankfurt School Blockchain Center is a think tank and research center which investigates the implications of blockchain technology for companies and their business models. Apart from the development of prototypes, it serves as a platform for managers, startups and technology and industry experts to share knowledge and best practices. The Blockchain Center also provides new research impulses and develops training for students and executives. It focuses on banking, mobility, “Industry 4.0” and the energy sector. 

http://www.fs-blockchain.de/ | Frankfurt, Germany

International Movement for Monetary Reform (IMMR)
The IMMR is an international coalition of nonprofit organisations from across the world, campaigning for a monetary system that serves society. We maintain a very clear and specific aim, namely to change the way money is created and allocated, but we are not dogmatic about the way our proposal is implemented as the details will vary from country to country. To serve this goal, the IMMR supports and connects various national member organisations to share ideas, discuss research and exchange best practices.

Read more: https://internationalmoneyreform.org