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No plans for European digital currency - Draghi

By Staff Writer on Sep 17, 2018 6:49AM
No plans for European digital currency - Draghi

Underlying technology still fragile.

The European Central bank has no plan to issue a digital currency because the underlying technology is still fragile and the use of physical cash still high in the euro zone, the ECB president said on Friday. The sudden proliferation of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, essentially a privately ...

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Sep 17 2018
6:49AM
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