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Is the digital greenback lifeless?

July 2023

In 2020, digital currencies had been one of many hottest subjects on the town. China was effectively on its approach to launching its personal central financial institution digital foreign money, or CBDC, and plenty of different nations launched CBDC analysis tasks, together with the US.

How issues change. Three years later, the digital greenback—regardless that it doesn’t exist—has turn into political crimson meat, as some politicians label it a dystopian software for surveillance. And late final 12 months, the Boston Fed quietly stopped engaged on its CBDC undertaking. So is the dream of the digital greenback lifeless? Learn the total story.

—Mike Orcutt

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