Will digital currencies become the norm as the world moves towards a cashless society?
Credit: The Conversation More than 90% of the world's central banks are looking at introducing a central bank digital currency...
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Privacy and the acceptance of centralized digital currencies in the U.S., India and Germany
Global trends such as the digitalization of economic transactions and the increasing importance of data processing manifest themselves by a decrease of cash payments and are accompanied by ideas such as the introduction of new forms of electronic money. The push for new digital currencies is driven by private companies, national governments and central banks alike. While decentralized solutions like Bitcoin, innovations in the area of decentralized finance (DEFI) and private efforts to establish asset-backed stablecoins (e.g. USD Coin or USD Tether) have already put pressure on traditional financial entities...