Digital Dollar Would Have to Coexist With Cash: Fed Chairman

 Jerome Powell today said that a central bank digital currency (CBDC) wouldn’t remove the need for physical cash.

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US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell today indicated that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), such as a potential “digital dollar”, wouldn’t replace cash.

The Fed is still researching a digital dollar.

“One of the three key principles highlighted in the report is that a CBDC needs to coexist with cash and other types of money in a flexible and innovative payment system,”

CBDCs are different from decentralized digital assets like Bitcoin because they are controlled by one entity: a central bank.

CBDCs have two basic designs: “retail” for peer-to-peer payments, and “wholesale,” intended for banks to buy and sell financial assets and to replace Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) systems. 

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