BITCOIN AS A CBDC
Bitcoin will not kill the U.S. dollar. It will become the U.S. dollar, with all controls and restrictions that any CBDC issuer could dream of. “Impossible!” I hear you crying out, giggling to myself in the face of the utmost ignorance that seems to have accumulated quadratically with bitcoin’s price increase. “Bitcoin is freedom money!”
Norway to extend CBDC research to wholesale. Decision in late 2025
Yesterday Norges Bank shared the results of the fourth phase of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) experiments. It doesn’t believe there is currently a need for a retail CBDC but clarified which conditions might trigger a decision. Given that tokenized deposits could provide an alternative to a retail CBDC, it will now explore a wholesale CBDC, for interbank settlement of tokenized deposits.
