Fedspeak: What the Federal Reserve Really Thinks About Bitcoin
Federal Reserve Governor, Lael Brainard, praised the potential of blockchain technology while tip-toeing around Bitcoin in a recent speech. But did Brainard really ignore the elephant in the room or was her message, in fact, a cryptic rallying cry for the banking industry to unite against this decentralized, peer-to-peer, and open-access monetary system?....
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The Federal Reserve Board of Governors and several Federal Reserve Banks are actively working on the digital dollar. Legislation has proposed that each American could have an account at the Fed for transacting in the central bank digital currency. Several Digital Dollar Initiatives The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Loretta J. Mester, outlined the Fed’s work on the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) during a speech at the 20th Anniversary Chicago Payments Symposium on Wednesday. Noting that the experience with emergency payments led by the....