Digital euro offers better privacy protections than private stablecoins: ECB ...
Unlike private companies, the ECB has “no commercial interest” in monetizing users’ data, the ECB executive board member argued. European Central Bank (ECB) executive board member, Fabio Panetta, has argued that a digital euro offers superior privacy protections than privately issued stablecoins.Panetta criticized the profit motive of private firms, emphasizing it is in their commercial interests to harvest masses of data on their users.“We are not like private companies,” the board member told Financial Times. “We have no commercial interest in storing, managing, or monetizing the data of....
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The Massachusetts senator said that it’s “worth considering” banning U.S. banks from holding the reserves to back private stablecoins. United States Senator Elizabeth Warren, one of the most vocal cryptocurrency skeptics in the U.S. government, has called the cryptocurrency industry the “new shadow bank.”In a Sept. 5 interview with the New York Times, Warren said that the cryptocurrency industry offers “many of the same services” as shadow banks, but still lacks “consumer protections or financial stability that back up the traditional system.” Warren expressed concerns over the rapidly....
A former Apple executive believes the European Central Bank might just be paying lip service to the concept of privacy in relation to a digital euro. When European Central Bank board member Fabio Panetta addressed the European Union Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs in April, he emphasized the importance of privacy in any potential future CBDC rollout. The ECB had conducted a public consultation on the possibility of a digital euro, canvassing the opinions of over 8,000 individuals and businesses. The responses that came back suggested privacy was the number one concern....
While the stablecoin economy is worth roughly $153 billion today, euro-backed stablecoin issuance has increased 1,683% from $31.9 million worth of euro-based tokens on January 3, 2020, to today’s $569 million. Since November 2021, the number of euro stablecoins swelled by 85.34%, but from January 2022 to today, euro stablecoin numbers dropped 14.17% during the last seven months. Euro-Pegged Stablecoins Cross Half a Billion in Value Since the Start of the Year Today, most of the stablecoin economy’s value is based on tokens backed by the U.S. dollar, but a small number of....