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New York Federal Reserve Bank President – John Williams – opined that the rapid development of virtual assets challenges the central banks’ desire to launch their own CBDCs. He advised policymakers to consider how cryptocurrencies would work efficiently alongside physical cash. Crypto Raises Questions for Central Banks John Williams – the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York – reacted to the recent presentation of the former Bank of England governor Mark...

Brett Heath – precious metal company Metalla Royalty & Streaming CEO – opined that crypto ”will lead the charge in the next financial crisis.” Furthermore, he compared the industry to the tech crash of the early 2000s alongside the mortgage collapse in 2008. Crypto Will Cause The Next Crash The head of Metalla Royalty & Streaming warned in an interview for the financial newspaper Kitco News that global cryptocurrency adoption will have a damaging impact on the...

James Bullard – the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis – advised that investors should be extra cautious when investing in digital assets. The US banker went further, labeling most of them as ”worthless.” Nonetheless, he revealed that the Fed is looking into launching its own digital coins. Most of The Assets Are Useless In a recent interview with Yahoo Finance, James Bullard – CEO and President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis – shared his thoughts...

The Chairman of the Federal Reserve outlined that the US will not haste its own digital currency project despite China’s rapid advancements. He revealed that the CBDC approach undertaken by the Asian country will not be effective in the USA. China’s CBDC Won’t Work in the US With the rapidly expanding topic of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in countless countries, the world’s largest economy is yet to provide a definitive stance. Although the US dollar remains the...

Bitcoin has taken a nasty hit in recent days. The world’s number one digital currency by market cap – which was previously trading in the $58,000 and $59,000 ranges – has stumbled backwards and is now trading for around $55,000. Earlier today, we published an article suggesting that the expiration of various bitcoin options was to blame, though there may have been another contributing factor. Jerome Powell – chair of the Federal Reserve – released an official statement...

After dismissing bitcoin’s chances of challenging the US dollar as a medium of exchange, the Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, said that the cryptocurrency could be a substitute for gold.He also doubled-down on Fed’s previous stance on potentially launching its own central bank digital currency (CBDC) by saying that there’s no need to rush it or be first on the market.Bitcoin Substitutes Gold, Not USDDuring an online conference held by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS),...

Jim Bullard, President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve, has dismissed the value proposition of Bitcoin (BTC) based on some of the oft-quoted advantages claimed by BTC proponents.Speaking to CNBC on Tuesday, Bullard remarked that the Federal Reserve viewed Bitcoin as more of a rival to gold than an actual currency.According to Bullard, “For Fed policy, it is going to be a dollar economy and a dollar global economy as far as the eye can see.”For Bullard, the primacy of the U.S. dollar is not...

Over the past several months, the Federal Reserve has been purchasing many leading assets as a means of keeping the U.S. economy somewhat stable during the coronavirus pandemic. This overspending and overprinting of traditional fiat money to ensure people have stimulus measures during the pandemic has caused many traders – both standard and institutional – to pile their money into commodities like bitcoin, which is no longer a speculative asset in many people’s minds.If the Federal Reserve...

A few years after questioning bitcoin’s role in the financial markets, the former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh has changed his mind, saying that owning BTC “makes sense” now.Furthermore, he breached the decade-old comparison between bitcoin and gold and said that the cryptocurrency is taking portions of the yellow metal’s market share.Former Fed Governor Changes His Mind On BTCThe primary cryptocurrency has a history of changing people’s minds. Previous examples include...

Tyler Winklevoss, the co-founder of the US-based cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, believes that the US stimulus packages are a “code for buy Bitcoin.” The former business partner of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg commented on a speech by the US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. Image Source: CNNIn it, Powell said that the “current economic downturn is the most severe in our lifetime, and it will take a while to get back to the levels of...