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Russia, along with China, has been attempting to reduce its reliance on the dollar, both in payments and in debt markets, but international trade is extremely difficult without access to the greenback. Only the largest currencies have liquid cross-currency swap markets with their most frequent pairs. Everyone else takes a route through the dollar.
originally posted by: JinMI
I think people who talk with the verbiage of digital currencies arent knowledgable enough to define the difference between Bitcoin and Fedcoin
The Fed Plans to Unveil Digital Dollar Prototypes in July The Federal Reserve is actively working on a central bank digital currency and some prototypes are near completion. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) plan to unveil two prototypes of a digital dollar as early as July.
"We would not proceed with this without support from Congress, and I think that would ideally come in the form of an authorizing law, rather than us trying to interpret our law to enable this."
Following the long-awaited Fed discussion paper about the pros and cons of a potential U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC) on Jan. 20, Bank of America economic analysts said they anticipate a U.S. CBDC to be issued between 2025 and 2030.
originally posted by: JinMI
Is anyone discussing crypto there? On/off ramps, processors, converters etc?
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: MykeNukem
You're non-expert assessment is pretty close to the reality. But it's also merchants, payments processors, issuing/acquiring banks and retailers. These are also all the same groups that want Digital ID to go along with this.
originally posted by: MykeNukem
Oh, I'm glad you replied.
There are e-coins that are "wrapped" now so that they can have other properties or attributes added which could bring them into a Central Bank system, have you heard any talk of that?
originally posted by: JinMI
From what you say, my perception is that they are still behind. Will be curious to see what kind of network, and how much transparency, Fedcoin will have.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: MykeNukem
Oh, I'm glad you replied.
There are e-coins that are "wrapped" now so that they can have other properties or attributes added which could bring them into a Central Bank system, have you heard any talk of that?
Zero.
The eventual digital dollar will be it's own scheme that will basically function like cash in your pocket except it can be used instantly for P2P, P2B and B2B without any latency issues or volatility that crypto has.
originally posted by: MykeNukem
That makes me lean towards they'll ban de-centralized crypto altogether at some point.