Fecha de publicación: 19/07/2018 Fuente: Wipo "digitalization" Method and system for transferring digital currency from a payer to recipient comprising receiving an identifier of data describing the first entity. Retrieving an entry from a block chain based on the received identifier. Authenticating the entry using a public key of the second entity. Extracting the data describing the first entity from the retrieved entry. Authenticating a block in the block chain containing the entry using a public key of a third entity. If the authentication of the block in the block chain is successful then transferring digital currency from a payer to a recipient, wherein the first entity is the payer or the recipient, and wherein transferring digital currency from the payer to the recipient comprises the payer. Obtaining wallet public key data associated with the recipient. Generating, using at least the wallet public key data, a currency public key for the amount of digital currency to be transferred to the recipient. Generating transfer data comprising at least the currency public key data and a value for the amount of digital currency to be transferred to the fourth entity.