According to financial analyst Edward Chancellor, the most important CBDC can replace Bitcoin in the future, resulting in inflation. CBDCs are “cool,” he agreed, but they aren’t “stable.”
CBDC Can Replace Bitcoin In The Future
Countries like China, Japan, the United States of America (USA) are known for leading economies of many central banks research of launching their own CBDC. Edward Chancellor recently told Reuters that central bank digital currencies are extremely risky initiatives.
He said that CBDC can replace Bitcoin in the future. The Chancellor clarified that it is much easier to distribute and “print” digital currencies than it is to distribute and “print” currency, which will result in extremely high inflation.
To resolve the issue, he suggested that governments and central banks should fix the number of the digital coins they issue – which would be much more than 21 million Bitcoins:
”When banks get it right with CBDCs this will kill Bitcoin.”
Changes in the form of money are common, according to the historian, and have occurred numerous times in the past. He used the example of fiat money, which once replaced metal coins. Chancellor expected that digital currencies will take over the world as part of the financial transition, but that Bitcoin would not be one of them.
To conclude, the journalist stated that although central bank digital currencies are “cool” as a concept, they are not stable.
