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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Call to national governments, which have long held a monopoly on currency issuance. Concerns over that monopoly being threatened appear to be what's driving interest in CBDCs, according to Gustav Peebles, a professor of anthropology and an expert in monetary history, theory and policy at The New School in New York City."Currencies throughout history can either be issued by the public or by private entities, and what crypto has shown us or has delivered is a reignition of an age-old fight between private and public currency issuance," said Peebles. "Central bankers suddenly got blindsided; and so, a central bank digital currency is central bankers trying to hold on to their monopoly over currency issuance in the face of erosion of that monopoly."What has the Federal Reserve said about CBDCs?The Federal Reserve released a January 2022 report outlining the potential benefits and downsides of issuing a CBDC in the US. While the Fed didn't take a stance either for or against the issuance of CBDCs, it is asking for public comment on more than 20 questions on the topic. People will have until May 20 of this year to participate in this stage of the Fed's CBDC research. Moreover, the report made clear that the Fed wouldn't move forward with CBDCs unless it received clear support from the executive branch as well as Congress.How would a digital dollar work in practice?Americans are using and carrying less cash nowadays, turning to card and electronic payments instead, with 40% of individuals reporting that they didn't use cash for in-person payments in April, according to a survey by the Federal Reserve System's Cash Product Office. Mobile payment services like Venmo, Zelle and PayPal are increasingly popular, with 64% of survey respondents saying they regularly use a digital payment platform, according to a 2020 survey by the Travis Credit Union. But what if you didn't need to go through your bank or a third-party platform to pay or store your money?That's what the digital dollar would promise. CBDCs could bypass the traditional banking system by allowing money to flow directly between parties, just like exchanging
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