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most citedA Decentralised Digital Identity Architecture

43 citations · 115 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CY2024

Retail Central Bank Digital Currency: Motivations, Opportunities, and Mistakes

Geoffrey Goodell, Hazem Danny Al-Nakib, Tomaso Aste

Nations around the world are conducting research into the design of central bank digital currency (CBDC), a new, digital form of money that would be issued by central banks alongsi…

cs.CY2023

Money: Who Has a Stake in the Most Value-Centric Common Design Material?

Ryan Bowler, Chris Speed, Geoffrey Goodell

Money is more than just a numeric value. It embodies trust and moral gravity, and it offers flexible ways to transact. However, the emergence of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC…

cs.CY2023★ 1 cited

A non-custodial wallet for digital currency: design challenges and opportunities

Ryan Bowler, Geoffrey Goodell, Joe Revans +2

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is a novel form of money that could be issued and regulated by central banks, offering benefits such as programmability, security, and privacy.…

cs.CY2023

Response to "The digital pound: a new form of money for households and businesses"

Geoffrey Goodell

This document constitutes a response to a Consultation Paper published by the Bank of England and HM Treasury, "The digital pound: a new form of money for households and businesses…

cs.CY2022★ 1 cited

Digital currency hardware wallets and the essence of money

Geoffrey Goodell

Many proposals for the design and implementation of digital wallets assume that the purpose of the wallet is to enable offline payments via custodial accounts, ignoring the real pr…

cs.CY2022★ 1 cited

Token-Based Payment Systems

Geoffrey Goodell

In this article, we consider the roles of tokens and distributed ledgers in digital payment systems. We present a brief taxonomy of digital payment systems that use tokens, and we…

cs.CR2022

Identification for Accountability vs Privacy

Nick Pope, Geoffrey Goodell

This document considers the counteracting requirements of privacy and accountability applied to identity management. Based on the requirements of GDPR applied to identity attribute…

cs.CY2021★ 10 cited

A Scalable Architecture for Electronic Payments

Geoff Goodell, D. R. Toliver, Hazem Danny Nakib

We present a scalable architecture for electronic retail payments via central bank digital currency and offer a solution to the perceived conflict between robust regulatory oversig…

cs.CY2021

The Forgotten Preconditions for a Well-Functioning Internet

Geoff Goodell

For decades, proponents of the Internet have promised that it would one day provide a seamless way for everyone in the world to communicate with each other, without introducing new…

cs.CY2021

Decentralised Trust for the Digital Economy

Geoffrey Goodell

We propose a research initiative to explore and evaluate end-user technology, infrastructure, business imperatives, and regulatory policy to support the privacy, dignity, and marke…

cs.CY2021★ 26 cited

A Digital Currency Architecture for Privacy and Owner-Custodianship

Geoffrey Goodell, Hazem Danny Al-Nakib, Paolo Tasca

In recent years, electronic retail payment mechanisms, especially e-commerce and card payments at the point of sale, have increasingly replaced cash in many developed countries. As…

cs.CY2020

A Decentralised Digital Token Architecture for Public Transport

Oscar King, Geoffrey Goodell

Digitisation is often viewed as beneficial to a user. Whereas traditionally, people would physically have to identify to a service, pay for a ticket in cash, or go into a library t…

cs.CY2020

Digital Currency and Economic Crises: Helping States Respond

Geoffrey Goodell, Hazem Danny Al-Nakib, Paolo Tasca

The current crisis, at the time of writing, has had a profound impact on the financial world, introducing the need for creative approaches to revitalising the economy at the micro…

cs.CY2020

Serverless Electronic Mail

Geoffrey Goodell

We describe a simple approach to peer-to-peer electronic mail that would allow users of ordinary workstations and mobile devices to exchange messages without relying upon third-par…

cs.CY2020★ 1 cited

Privacy by Design in Value-Exchange Systems

Geoffrey Goodell

This article addresses some of the most contentious issues related to privacy in electronic payment systems, particularly the current zeitgeist of proposed solutions for central ba…

cs.CY2019★ 10 cited

Data management for platform-mediated public services: Challenges and best practices

Agnieszka Rychwalska, Geoffrey Goodell, Magdalena Roszczynska-Kurasinska

Data harvesting and profiling have become a de facto business model for many businesses in the digital economy. The surveillance of individual persons through their use of private…

cs.CY2019★ 43 cited

A Decentralised Digital Identity Architecture

Geoff Goodell, Tomaso Aste

Current architectures to validate, certify, and manage identity are based on centralised, top-down approaches that rely on trusted authorities and third-party operators. We approac…

cs.CY2018★ 22 cited

Can Cryptocurrencies Preserve Privacy and Comply with Regulations?

Geoff Goodell, Tomaso Aste

Cryptocurrencies offer an alternative to traditional methods of electronic value exchange, promising anonymous, cash-like electronic transfers, but in practice they fall short for…