During an interview at a Reuters conference, the ECB’s President, Christine Lagarde, noted that bitcoin had some “funny business” and asked for a global layer of regulation for bitcoin.
This was a bit of an off-hand remark, but also comes at the same time as the ECB releasing the results of the end of public consultation around the digital euro, as well as a statement from Christine Lagarde that the digital euro was likely to come about in the next five years.
The digital euro will be the European Union’s version of a central bank digital currency, so the two remarks in combination seem to indicate more of a hybrid approach of trying to maneuver against bitcoin while promoting the ECB’s vision for its digital euro.
