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<p>"While central banks <em>have</em> taken cryptocurrencies more and
more seriously over the years, they also remain the ultimate authorities
any rising new form of money must reckon with before knocking down the
system. If anything replaces fiat currencies (in stable economies, at
least), it’d likely need central bank support or even be issued by a
central bank."</p>
<p>"To that end, the Bank of England, Bank of Japan, European Central
Bank, Bank of Canada, and Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank)
along with the Bank of International Settlements <a href="https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/news/2020/january/central-bank-group-to-assess-potential-cases-for-central-bank-digital-currencies.pdf">recently announced that they’ve banded together</a> to research central bank digital currencies."</p>
<p>"The new group—co-chaired by Benoît Cœuré, head of the Bank of
International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub, and Jon Cunliffe, deputy
governor of the Bank of England and chair of the Committee on Payments
and Market Infrastructures at the BIS—will openly share their findings
and experiences. They’ll look into emerging technologies, use cases, and
digital currency design options, including how such currencies would
work across national borders."</p>
<p>"The group’s formation isn’t a commitment to launch a central bank
digital currency, but the coalition shows how far the idea has come and
how much weight it has with central banks. Indeed, a survey conducted by
the BIS a year ago found some <a href="https://www.bis.org/publ/bppdf/bispap101.pdf">70 percent of central banks [PDF]</a> had central bank digital currency projects in the works or underway."</p>
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