ARTICLE SUMMERY: “We just glimpsed how a “digital dollar” might work, thanks to coronavirus” is a deep look into the future of the way money will be distributed, used and kept track of by Blockchain as a result of COVID-19.
This came about by the need for people to have cash in hand for basic needs during this pandemic, and while there is no system in place a plan for the Federal Reserve to create a digital currency system is in the works.
Unrelated to COVID-19 a new draft of the Senate Banking Bill calls for
- A digitized version of the existing dollar
- Creation of digital wallets for citizens branded as “FedAccounts”
- All this run by the Federal Reserve
Mike Orcutt covers the ins and outs of this and the possible down side, this is well worth the read.
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