Spanish Socialist Workers' Party pens public digital currency initiative
Spain’s oldest active political party is reportedly looking to create a public digital currency. The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), the governing political body in Spain, is backing a new national digital currency initiative.PSOE, Spain’s oldest active party and the leading force in the Congress of Deputies, has introduced a non-law proposition to launch a national digital currency in response to the ongoing decline in cash usage, local news agency El Economista reported Monday.The party noted that the proposition comes in response to the European Central Bank’s experiments with....
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