Australia Could Consider Digital Currency Issuance As Popular Payment Method Usage Keeps Declining
Issuing a digital Australian Dollar could take place on distributed ledgers while still being overseen by the central bank. Additionally, the verification and distribution of currency would be done by authorized entities, creating another example of how a private blockchain would look and feel. However, a digitized Australian Dollar would not entirely replace the current medium of money, but rather run in parallel. Although a lot of people active in the Bitcoin world have been saying this for a while now, it looks like digital currency pose a legitimate threat to replacing national....
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