Any national digital currency would almost certainly require every address to be linked to an identity, using KYC and other means we see in banks today. In fact, if done on the private ledger, like the one that Norges Bank is testing right now, the CBDC will offer not only less privacy for a single customer, but at the same time less public transparency with regard to blockchains.
I don't get that last part. How does a CBDC create less public transparency with regard to blockchains? Does that mean people could confuse a CBDC (private blockchain) with public blockchains (e.g., Bitcoin) and be concerned then that what see with the CBDCs can also be done with bitcoin? Or ????