Governor Lael Brainard At the Decoding Digital Currency Conference Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California It is a pleasure to be here these days. What higher place to debate digital currencies than in city, home to numerous technology innovators functioning on new ways in which to disrupt varied aspects of our daily lives? Because of the trans-formative potential of digital currency and distributed ledger technologies, the central bank is actively observation digital innovations within the economic system. We’ve been keenly evaluating developments in fin tech and digital currencies through a multidisciplinary lens, combining info technology and policy analysis to review their potential implications for payments policy, oversight and regulation, monetary stability, financial policy, and also the provision of economic services. This work attracts from experience throughout the central bank System and edges from engagement with ou...