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Thriller SXSW: The Coming US Digital Dollar

Thriller SXSW: The Coming US Digital Dollar

Thriller "A Bitcoin Zine" · Car

March 19, 202143m 1s

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<p>Digital Dollar Would Have to Coexist With Cash: Fed Chairman</p> <p> Jerome Powell today said that a central bank digital currency (CBDC) wouldn’t remove the need for physical cash.</p> <p>news coming from Tim Copeland via <a href="https://decrypt.co/60315/microstrategy-snaps-up-another-10-million-in-bitcoin">Decrypt</a></p> <p>US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell today indicated that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), such as a potential “digital dollar”, wouldn’t replace cash.</p> <p>The Fed is still researching a digital dollar.</p> <p>“One of the three key principles highlighted in the report is that a CBDC needs to coexist with cash and other types of money in a flexible and innovative payment system,”</p> <p>CBDCs are different from decentralized digital assets like Bitcoin because they are controlled by one entity: a central bank.</p> <p>CBDCs have two basic designs: “retail” for peer-to-peer payments, and “wholesale,” intended for banks to buy and sell financial assets and to replace Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) systems. </p> <p>VanEck's Bitcoin ETF Application Published By SEC</p> <p>news coming from Scott Chipolina of <a href="https://decrypt.co/61874/vanecks-bitcoin-etf-application-published-by-sec">Decrypt</a></p> <p>The Satoshi Standard is Near: Visa Is Working to 'Enable Bitcoin Purchases’</p> <p>news coming from Andrew Asmakov of <a href="https://decrypt.co/61738/visa-is-working-to-enable-bitcoin-purchases-ceo">Decrypt</a></p> <p>Checkout all the SXSW Music at: <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXs_3rGeYdIm_4P5e7HPk9VCQGaQe23MP">SXSW Channel on YouTube</a></p>