CBDC | ForkLog - Part 16

ForkLog 8 07.11.2022

Arthur Hayes calls central bank digital currencies ‘pure evil’

Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes called CBDCs an ideal tool for governments and an assault on sovereignty over peer-to-peer transactions.

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ForkLog 20 03.11.2022

Bankruptcy petition filed against developer of Russia’s ‘national digital currency’

A bankruptcy petition has been filed against Take Wing, a company partly owned by Ruslan Glazyev, son of former State Duma deputy Sergei Glazyev.

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ForkLog 9 31.10.2022

India to test digital rupee in November

On November 1, the Reserve Bank of India will launch the pilot of the national digital currency in wholesale markets. Mass retail testing will begin within a month.

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ForkLog 12 31.10.2022

Bank of Thailand delays retail CBDC launch timeline

The retail digital baht should show additional benefits for the financial system under prudent risk management. This was stated by Thailand's central bank governor Setaput Sutivartnarueput, The Bangkok Post reports.

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ForkLog 10 27.10.2022

Kazakhstan’s central bank to test BNB Chain for its CBDC

The National Bank of Kazakhstan (NBK) will test BNB Chain from Binance to deploy a national digital currency.

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ForkLog 11 26.10.2022

Turkish central bank to consider launch of CBDC in 2023

Turkey's presidential program for 2023 includes a plan to prepare for the launch of the digital lira. CoinDesk reports, citing the Government Strategy and Budget Office.

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ForkLog 9 24.10.2022

Japan to test payment cards for CBDC

The largest payments system in Japan, JCB, in collaboration with IDEMIA and Softspace, will test the possibility of using existing credit-card infrastructure for CBDC payments.

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ForkLog 10 14.10.2022

In China, researchers propose an ‘Asian digital currency’ as a counterweight to the dollar

Researchers from a Chinese state institution floated the idea of a pan-Asian digital currency to reduce the region's economies' reliance on the U.S. dollar. SCMP reports.

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ForkLog 5 13.10.2022

e-CNY transaction volume tops $14 billion

By the end of summer 2022, the cumulative volume of e-CNY transactions reached 100.04 billion yuan (about $14 billion), according to the People's Bank of China.

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ForkLog 18 10.10.2022

Michael Saylor questions the prospects for national digital currencies

Central bank digital currencies are unstable and doomed to fail, and the first cryptocurrency is destined to become the best form of money due to its scarcity in terms of time and energy. This was stated by former MicroStrategy chief and Bitcoin maximalist Michael Saylor.

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ForkLog 11 07.10.2022

RBI to launch pilot for the digital rupee

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) published a report on national digital currencies. It states that the prototype of the digital rupee will be launched 'in the near future'.

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ForkLog 11 30.09.2022

Opinion: CBDCs could bring stability to the DeFi sector

CBDCs can interact with decentralized finance (DeFi) and provide the sector with greater stability. This view was expressed by Thomas Moser, a member of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) board, in an interview with Cointelegraph.

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