Just three countries have so far introduced CBDCs, according to the IMF, and two of them are already having serious issues.Naked Capitalism
The roll-out of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), while still in its early stages, is not going as smoothly as the central banking community may have hoped. The latest central bank to admit to serious difficulties is the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) whose governor Richard Byles has acknowledged that the rollout of the country’s CBDC, the Jam-Dex, has been a lot slower than originally anticipated. In fact, the total amount of Jam-Dex in circulation has remained stuck at just 230 million Jamaican dollars (USD 1.47 million) since the first — and so far only — batch of the digital currency was “minted” 19 months ago.
The Jam-Dex is one of just three fully-launched retail CBDCs in the world, according to the IMF, alongside the Bahamian sand dollar and Nigeria’s eNaira.
“Being one of the first in the world has its unique challenges,” Byles said at the BOJ’s quarterly monetary policy report press conference last Wednesday. “What we are finding in the roll-out is that as we address an issue and move ahead, another one pops up. I guess that’s what you get for being amongst the first; you don’t have a road map set out by others, but we are determined.”...
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4 comments:
A CBDC is just a bank account at the central bank. How hard can it be?
Probably makes it easier for turd world insiders to steal the munnie …
I have to give them credit for persistence. :)
I suspect it is people getting credit for things that end up not being persistent that's the problem.
A dollar bill solves the double spend problem in a distributed manner extremely cost effectively.
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