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Potential Benefits and Drawbacks of CBDCs and Impact on the Crypto Industry Central Banks

26 Jun 2023 4 minute read 11 comments Smoljanović

Potential Benefits and Drawbacks of CBDCs and Impact on the Crypto Industry Central Banks   Introduction Doing all that they can to stay relevant and continue to exist, the banks will continue to find new ways to co-exist with crypto.  Central Bank D...

From Financial Inclusion to Totalitarianism: The Potential Pitfalls of CBDCs

22 Jun 2023 2 minute read 1 comment ⚡ Daniela ⚡

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are digital versions of national currencies issued by central banks. While many will be "selling" CBDCs as a way to increase financial inclusion and efficiency in payment systems, there are concerns about how t...

Short #5 Controversy Surrounding Digital Pound in the UK! What Does It Mean for Cryptocurrencies?

22 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Chainable.it

  The United Kingdom plans to introduce a digital pound, which has gained interest from cryptocurrency companies and lobbying groups. However, there is an opinion that this currency should be interoperable with cryptocurrencies to be more future-proo...

Banks in India have introduced CBDC

21 Jun 2023 3 minute read 2 comments Bala

Today I received an email from my bank saying that they have introduced Digital Rupee and they call it e₹. The email said that the RBI is doing a Pilot of CBDC with the help of ICICI Bank. I was so curious to go and explore more about this. I still h...

Leaked documents about the EU-commission and digital euro (CBDC)

15 Jun 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Vladan Lausevic

The European Commission is considering the implementation of a digital euro that would be accessible to all retail users for free, aiming to promote financial inclusion and competition in digital payments. A leaked draft proposal reveals the Commissi...

Nigeria and the recent CBDC report

7 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has denied reports that it devalued the local currency, calling the claims "fake news" and stating that the report contains falsehoods and destabilizing innuendos. The CBN emphasized that the report's authors lack an...

Monetary freedom and CBDCs

26 May 2023 4 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

  The famous Bitcoiner Michael Saylor has recently shared his thoughts on governments and a seldom-discussed aspect: how they manipulate money as a means of control. Regardless of nationality, governments have become a popular target of criticism. Wi...

"Against CBDCs"

24 May 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

Adopting a central bank digital currency (CBDC) could have significant ramifications, and there is increasing debate and hostility among politicians, particularly in the US, regarding creating a CBDC. Republican politicians, who have shown relatively...

From Cash to Chaos: Nigeria's CBDC Experiment

23 May 2023 2 minute read 4 comments ⚡ Daniela ⚡

The implementation of CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) in Nigeria did not unfold as initially intended. It is often observed that African nations are frequently chosen as experimental grounds by influential individuals. Nigeria embarked on a grad...

How to Download and Use a Monero Wallet (In less than 5 minutes)

22 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments B. Em

Ever wondered what is the Anti-CBDC? Most likely its privacy coins, this is why I want to show you how you can use them. People may be intimidated and may think that privacy coins are hard to use/ too complicated or they may be concerned about the fe...