Last week, Cryptocracy reported that Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, said publicly that there are no plans to ban cryptocurrency. Now, several lawmakers have sent him an open letter inquiring about his support for digital currencies. In the letter, signatories asked Powell to clarify earlier statements he’s made regarding digital currencies including his statement that a Central Bank Digital Currency would eliminate the need for stablecoins and that bitcoin is a substitute for gold rather than the U.S. dollar. Here’s a short excerpt from the Congressional letter:
Additionally, as you know, cryptocurrency networks do not merely facilitate value transfer, but also make possible myriad applications – from decentralized identity to decentralized file storage. Do you believe a CBDC would make these applications, and the cryptocurrencies that power them, obsolete?
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