Russia is purportedly taking a fast-second strategy for the digital ruble.
A Russian official argued that the country should have launched research on a central bank digital currency four years ago in order to claim leadership in the field.
According to Dmitry Peskov, a special representative of the President of the Russian Federation on digital and technological development, the first-mover advantage also brings a number of risks in terms of financial stability.
Peskov stated that Russia's CBDC - a digital ruble - could become a reality in three to seven years if development starts now.
Russia's central bank officially released a CBDC consultation paper on Oct. 13.
Subsequently, Anatoly Aksakov, a member of the Russian State Duma and a key representative of Russia's crypto-related legislation efforts, claimed that the digital currency will enter a pilot phase in the first half of 2021.
Aksakov is confident that the upcoming digital ruble "Is the future," while decentralized crypto tokens such as Bitcoin have no future.
Financial experts in other countries are also taking a wait-and-see approach to CBDCs.
On Oct. 19, Jerome Powell of the United States Federal Reserve claimed that it's better to get it right than to be first.
The central bank of New Zealand expressed a similar stance, claiming that "There is much work to be done" in the CBDC area before issuing a national digital currency.
Russia doesn't need to be first with a digital currency, says state expert
pubblicato su Oct 23, 2020
by Cointele | pubblicato su Coinage
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