Cryptocurrencies

Why Central Banks Could Mint Their Own Digital Currency

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Re-Blogged From Stratfor

Highlights

  • Only 8 percent of global financial transactions today involve cash, but that figure will diminish even further as digital currencies gain prominence.
  • Faced with the growth of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, central banks around the world will continue their research into introducing their own digital currencies.
  • By entering the market for cryptocurrencies, central banks could pose a profound threat to the commercial banking business model.

A worker passes a bitcoin mining operation in Quebec in March 2018.

(LARS HAGBERG/AFP/Getty Images)

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Empire Strikes Back – At Bitcoin

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By John Rubino – Re-Blogged From Dollar Collpse

One of the uncertainties with cryptocurrencies has always been how governments would react once bitcoin and its kin got big enough to actually threaten the monopolies of national fiat currencies.

That day seemed to be approaching as cryptocurrencies’ aggregate market cap blew through $100 billion and the pipeline of new bitcoin wannabes (initial coin offerings, or ICOs) swelled into the hundreds. Even – in a classic sign of a bubble top — Paris Hilton got involved:

Hotel Heiress Paris Hilton Is the Latest Celebrity to Promote an ICO

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