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Many central banks including the Fed are looking into CBDC's. While not quite the same as the distributed consensus based algorithm of Bitcoin, there are too many benefits to governments/central banks to ignore the technology.

The question is not whether cryptographically secured algorithmic money will be a part of future monetary systems but who will control the algorithm and/or how will different systems compete with each other.




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