{"id":6757,"date":"2021-07-26T23:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=6757"},"modified":"2021-07-26T23:30:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T22:30:15","slug":"making-any-cryptocurrency-a-national-currency-is-an-inadvisable-shortcut-imf-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/making-any-cryptocurrency-a-national-currency-is-an-inadvisable-shortcut-imf-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Making any cryptocurrency a national currency \u201cis an inadvisable shortcut\u201d – IMF officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Two IMF officials have come out to warn Nations about the consequences of<\/a> making cryptocurrency a national currency, stating that the repercussions “may be grave”.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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According to Tobias Adrian, financial counsellor and director of the IMF's marketing department, and Rhoda Weeks-Brown, general counsel and director of the IMF's legal department\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/g>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/clipPath>\r\n <\/defs><\/svg><\/span><\/a>, a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin (BTC) could catch on in countries with unstable inflation and exchange rates, allowing unbanked people to make payments. However, the damage to a country's economy could be substantial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the two IMF officials, countries that adopt cryptocurrencies as national currencies or \u201cgrant crypto-assets legal tender status\u201d risk domestic prices becoming highly volatile, assets being used in contravention of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures, and issues with macroeconomic stability and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf products and services were priced in both real money and cryptoassets, families and companies would spend substantial time and resources deciding which money to hold rather than engaging in productive activities,\u201d Adrian and Weeks-Brown wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf taxes were listed in advance in a crypto assets while expenditures remained primarily in the local currency, or vice versa, government revenues would be vulnerable to exchange rate risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also argued that monetary policy in general “would lose bite,” meaning that broad crypto adoption undermines any country's credibility in adopting a crypto asset like BTC<\/a> or another token, and cited “massive price volatility in crypto-assets.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bitcoin's price has fluctuated between $65,000 and $30,000 this year, reaching above $40,000 today before dropping into the $37,000s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the IMF blog did not mention El Salvador, which plans to accept Bitcoin as legal cash in September, Adrian and Weeks-Brown argued that making any cryptocurrency a national currency is an \u201cinadvisable shortcut\u201d to more accessible financial services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has stated that the country's plentiful geothermal energy will be used to generate Bitcoin blocks, the pair made accusations about environmental concerns associated with cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IMF has a history of expressing disapproval of governments that adopt cryptocurrency. Smaller countries, such as the Marshall Islands, recognizing a digital currency as legal tender<\/a>, according to spokespeople, \u201craise risks to macroeconomic and financial stability as well as financial integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that scenario, the IMF said the islands' local economy had been stretched by the pandemic's economic consequences and that the introduction of a digital currency was unlikely to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two IMF officials have come out to warn Nations about the consequences of making cryptocurrency a national currency, stating that the repercussions “may be grave”. According to Tobias Adrian, financial counsellor and director of the IMF’s marketing department, and Rhoda Weeks-Brown, general counsel and director of the IMF’s legal department , a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1799,1341,1800],"class_list":["post-6757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","tag-bitcoins","tag-imf","tag-inadvisable-shortcut"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Making-any-cryptocurrency-a-national-currency-is-an-inadvisable-shortcut-IMF-officials.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}