Just completed mandatory Health and Safety Retraining for UQ. My comments on the courseNo mention of Covid. There are still absurd posters around from the early pandemic when the airborne nature of Covid was unknown.1/4

@johnquiggin @n_dimension The problem is that the vocabulary has been irrevocably polluted by bad actors. See "is git a blockchain". But it is clear that once you throw away the requirement for anonymity and political decentralisation, governments ought to be able to set up an efficient, secure, auditable, public electronic payment system. Whether that counts as "blockchain" or "CBDC" is a marketing question.