BU CS Faculty Contribute Ideas for the Electronic Currency and Secure Hardware (ECASH) Bill
Dr. Gabe Kaptchuk, Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science, and Eran Tromer, expected to begin faculty appointments at CAS in computer science in 2023, contribute ideas for the Electronic Currency and Secure Hardware (ECASH) Bill.
The United States needs an electronic currency to help those who are shut out of the digital economy even as the world goes cashless. And the BU Faculty of Computing &Data Sciences (CDS) has some ideas about how to make that happen safely, securely, and privately.
US Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and US Representative Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) visited the School of Law on Tuesday to discuss H.R. 7231, the Electronic Currency and Secure Hardware (ECASH) Act, which would develop an electronic version of the US dollar for use by the American public.
Read more about it in this article written by Joel Brown for BU Today.