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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Could theoretically decide to impose criminal sanctions for the transaction. Which countries are exploring CBDCs?About 110 countries are at some stage of CBDC development, according to the IMF. The Bahamas, Nigeria and several countries in the eastern Caribbean through the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (including Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia and St. Kitts and Nevis) have already issued CBDCs. The names of their e-currencies are the Sand Dollar, eNaira and DCash, respectively. China, which outlawed cryptocurrency last year, is leading the "in-development" pack with the digital yuan, having trialed over $5 billion worth of transactions since June 2021. China has conducted various real-world pilot runs to test the "reliability of economic theories, the stability of systems and the controllability of risks," according to a recent report by the People's Bank of China. These pilot runs included giving digital yuan to a random pool of applicants to be spent at designated offline locations or on the site of China's largest online retailer, JD.com. Instead of adopting its own digital coin or CBDC, El Salvador made bitcoin legal tender last year, meaning the established cryptocurrency must be accepted as a form of payment throughout the country. Soon after, Panama followed in El Salvador's footsteps and unveiled a similar plan to make bitcoin legal tender.The US is now the next country entering the fold with the release of the Fed report, opening the gates for debate over the digital dollar.
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