{"id":"tp-5058","type":"article-newspaper","title":"Digital Currency and Blockchain Weekly Round-Up – February 7th, 2020","author":"Shampa Mani","publisher":"TOKENPOST Inc.","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/5058","datePublished":"2020-02-07T12:32:07.000Z","dateModified":"2020-02-07T12:43:05.000Z","language":"en","abstract":"U.S. Federal Reserve exploring DLTs and a potential CBDC, confirms Governor Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard has revealed that the central bank is conducting research on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and i…","section":"Technology","references":[{"title":"U.S. Federal Reserve exploring DLTs and a potential CBDC, confirms Governor","url":"https://tokenpost.com/US-Federal-Reserve-governor-conducts-research-about-DLT-for-digital-currencies-5047"},{"title":"U.S. Navy and Air Force seek to secure communications using blockchain 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