Re:US Digital Currency
by freeone3000 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @02:59PM
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Why peg it to the dollar? Most dollars aren't physical, so we could "simply" shift the dollar financial systems to this process.
Re:US Digital Currency
by AnimalMuppet on Thursday May 10, 2018 @06:50PM
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So far, the dollar has had a much more stable value than any cryptocurrency. We'd like to keep that feature.
The advantage here is triple-ledger system, not the mining/anonymity features of other crypto. Having a pseudo-dollar cryptocoin creates a digital cash that is inherently traceable and avoids all the nasty bits of international money changing. It's a governments wet dream.