CoinGeek Pulse Episode 18: World’s first CBDC, PayPal’s HODL scheme and Pumpkin Man Craig
This week in CoinGeek Pulse, we are running down the top stories that shake the Bitcoin and blockchain industry.
This week in CoinGeek Pulse, we are running down the top stories that shake the Bitcoin and blockchain industry.
The Central Bank of the Bahamas has developed the Sand Dollar to be transferrable via mobile phones, making it easy to use for the residents.
Officials at the Central Bank of the Bahamas are looking at integrating the Sand Dollar into the global financial system.
The Bahamas, a country of 400,000 people, has been pilot testing its digital currency—the Sand Dollar—since December 2019.
There was $48,000 worth of its central bank digital currency, the Sand Dollar, in circulation, according to the Bahamas central bank.
Bahamas started developing the Sand Dollar after the 2019 hurricane, seeking to "full-proof" its financial system against such destruction in the future.
A former AG with the Caribbean island of Anguilla has urged Bahamas to step up its efforts in implementing a digital currency or risk losing to its neighbors.
Sand Dollar is an initiative to tokenize the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBOB)’s digital fiat currency as a central bank digital currency.