Estonia’s central bank made bold claims about the scalability of a blockchain-based digital euro following an experiment conducted with some fellow euro-area central banks. Eesti Pank found that the "novel blockchain-based solution could in theory support almost unlimited numbers of payments being processed at the same time," an announcement Monday said. Working alongside the European Central Bank (ECB) and the central banks of Spain, Germany, Italy, Greece, Ireland, Latvia and the Netherlands, Eesti Pank's experiment used the same blockchain technology that forms the basis of the country's e-Estonia digital ... (full story)