Colombia Unveils Blueprint for Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and Crypto Regulatory Framework

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Colombia’s finance minister announces plans for a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), along with a bill to regulate cryptocurrencies.
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Colombia’s finance minister announces plans for a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), along with a bill to regulate cryptocurrencies. “We will have a digital currency, and the primary issuer will be the central bank,” said Ricardo Bonilla. ‘You could have a potentially darker world where the government decides that units of central bank money can be used to purchase some things, but not other things that it deems less desirable like say ammunition, or drugs, or pornography’