Re:Central Bank Digital Currencies are coming
by throwawaygh on Sunday October 18, 2020 @02:27PM
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> What you have in your bank account is not digital cash. It's effectively a note that the bank owes you cash.
Yes.
> as far as I understood without physical money there would be no bank accounts.
I'm not sure why that would be the case. I've never withdrawn a physical dollar from my bank account.
> how could an economy go 100 percent electronic banking, if banking is built on the existence of physical cash? This is the missing link.
I don't think that's the point of CB digital currency. The point of CB's digital currency is to reduce the indirection between policy and business/consumer behavior.
NB: this includes both fiscal and monetary policy. So e.g. provides a mechanism to cut the retail banks out of things like covid relief funds.
Yes.
> as far as I understood without physical money there would be no bank accounts.
I'm not sure why that would be the case. I've never withdrawn a physical dollar from my bank account.
> how could an economy go 100 percent electronic banking, if banking is built on the existence of physical cash? This is the missing link.
I don't think that's the point of CB digital currency. The point of CB's digital currency is to reduce the indirection between policy and business/consumer behavior.
NB: this includes both fiscal and monetary policy. So e.g. provides a mechanism to cut the retail banks out of things like covid relief funds.