Federal Reserve Bank reveals details of digital dollar research

Cointelegraph

Published Sep 24, 2020 02:07AM ET

Updated Sep 24, 2020 03:40AM ET

The President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has revealed details of the Fed’s ongoing research into a potential digital dollar.

Speaking in a keynote address on September 23, Loretta Mester emphasized that the Federal Reserve has been exploring central bank digital currencies (CBDC) since before the pandemic, noting that its Board of Governors has been “building and testing a range of distributed ledger platforms to understand their potential benefits and tradeoffs.”

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