
International Monetary Fund
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2 September, 2021
El Salvador residents in fresh protests against BTC imposition
Salvadorians have held their ground and rejected the imposition of BTC as legal tender, with fresh protests breaking out a...
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30 July, 2021
Making BTC national currency is a bad idea, IMF warns
There’s a need for digital payments across the globe, but adopting a decentralized digital currency is a shortcut that any...
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22 June, 2021
World Bank denies support to El Salvador for making BTC legal tender
A spokesperson for the World Bank reportedly said there are too many ‘shortcomings’ in BTC for this to be something...
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3 April, 2021
IMF: Marshall Islands digital currency could undermine monetary stability
The measures that RMI took to combat COVID-19 could adversely impact the economy, and issuing Sovereign legal tender would raise...
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23 October, 2020
IMF: CBDCs give more control, but don’t solve every problem
While the technology may deliver benefits for policymakers, there were many crises CBDCs could not fix, according to the International...
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28 August, 2020
The CoinGeek Pulse: Episode 10
The International Monetary Fund has been discussing digital money this week, dubbing it “special currency.”