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While Europe accelerates towards digital payments and prepares the digital euro, the ECB creates a surprise. It recommends keeping cash at home. This injunction reveals a reality too often overlooked in official speeches: the fragility of digital systems in the face of crises. Such a deliberate return to cash does not mark a step backwards, but a clear anticipation of systemic risks, between outages, geopolitical tensions and cyberattacks.
And if the digital future still needed cash? While Sweden and Norway are rediscovering the importance of cash in the face of systemic risks, Vitalik Buterin is reigniting the debate. In a statement shared on X, the co-founder of Ethereum calls for strengthening the resilience and privacy of the protocol. The goal is to make Ethereum a credible alternative to cash. This statement marks a strategic turning point in the design of blockchain uses in the post-cash era.
There are countries where people are forced to use a CBDC, and others, like Norway, where it is legally required to accept cash.
The decline of cash and ATMs in France paves the way for cryptocurrencies, despite the ECB's ambitions with the digital euro.
The crypto revolution is struggling to attract Canadians. Despite the growing interest in these assets internationally, Canadians remain attached to more traditional payment methods. At least, that's what a recent survey conducted by the country's central bank reveals.
The transition to the ECB digital euro aims to curb the crypto phenomenon and the decrease in cash usage.
Australia's leaders have begun to reduce the number of banknotes in circulation in the country. This brings to an end more than 60 years of reign by greenbacks and pennies, which will gradually have to give way to digital money. What substitute for cash: bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies or CBDC? Let's find out!