(AGENPARL) - Roma, 2 Agosto 2022 - (AGENPARL) – mar 02 agosto 2022 In many regions, internet-free access may be a make-or-break feature for central bank digital currencies []
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Dear Colleague,
As the world’s central banks rush to develop digital currencies, we are left to wonder what will happen when the web goes down in a war or a natural disaster, and how the 75 percent of the world’s adult low-income population that doesn’t even have internet access can use digital currencies.
Kliff writes that “The future of offline CBDCs may lie in the technological past.”
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