{"id":36300,"date":"2021-02-11T17:42:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36300"},"modified":"2025-08-29T05:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:40:04","slug":"christine-lagarde-central-banks-unlikely-to-include-bitcoin-in-their-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/christine-lagarde-central-banks-unlikely-to-include-bitcoin-in-their-reserves\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine Lagarde: Central banks unlikely to include Bitcoin in their reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ECB President Christine Lagarde doubted that central banks would include digital gold in their reserves in the near future, writes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/christine-lagarde-central-banks-unlikely-to-hold-bitcoin-soon-2021-2?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29&#038;r=US&#038;IR=T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business Insider<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Extremely unlikely. So unlikely that there is nothing to say,&#8221; she said at a conference hosted by The Economist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, Lagarde called Bitcoin a highly speculative asset. While head of the IMF, in 2018 she stated that international regulation of cryptocurrencies is inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in November, the ECB president announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ecb-chief-launch-of-digital-euro-possible-within-the-next-four-years\">the launch of a digital euro is possible within the next four years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Lagarde noted that the spread of stablecoins <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ecb-chief-sees-stablecoins-as-a-threat-to-financial-stability\">poses risks to financial stability and monetary sovereignty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full stream of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECB President Christine Lagarde doubted that central banks would include digital gold in their reserves in the near future, according to Business Insider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,809,205],"class_list":["post-36300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-central-banks","tag-christine-lagarde"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"26","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36302,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36300\/revisions\/36302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}