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Hamilton Investment Management CEO Does Not Consider El Salvador’s BTC Adoption As a Model For the Future

The Bitcoin (BTC) adoption of El Salvador to be a legal tender as well as the second native currency of the country in this year’s September puts a question mark on the decentralized cryptocurrencies’ viability as a substitute for the national currencies that are centrally controlled. As per William be – the CEO of Hamilton Investment Management, an institutional investment company, the country’s BTC adoption cannot be seen as a future model; however rather different from the rest.

CBDC scenario and El Salvador’s exception

He added that the country is considered as an emerging economy as well as a country having several currency modifications throughout history. In 2001, the domestic currency thereof – the colón – was replaced by El Salvador with the United States dollar. The country’s BTC adoption is a move that has been taken in the same vein after 20 years. As per the government of El Salvador, remittance charges implemented on the country’s residents are more than $400M yearly. Additionally, the majority of the citizens do not possess bank accounts of their own.

In this way, a cryptocurrency’s adoption that can be utilized via a smartphone is capable of opening access for the residents to several other services related to finance for the earliest time. Nonetheless, worldwide creditors such as the International Monetary Fund (IMO) are in advance cautioning against a decentralized and nationless cryptocurrency’s adoption, which depends completely on the speculation of the market. It is significantly unlikely that any of the prominent economies will move after El Salvador’s instance and emancipate a cryptocurrency that cannot be controlled by the central bank thereof, he added.

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Nevertheless, the decision of the respective adoption has been taken at a point when several emerging countries are thinking about their digital currencies. As per the United States’ Atlantic Council, almost 89 central banks across the globe are delving deep into the concept of creating as well as launching the CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies). China has additionally been openly testing the digital yuan thereof – called e-CNY – following this year’s April and has plans of a trial at a large scale during the coming year’s Beijing Winter Olympics.

CBDCs would keep some advantages of cryptocurrencies

As per the Bank of England, a CBDC of the UK would function as the digital currency’s unique form to be utilized by the businesses and the individuals for meeting their daily payment requirements. The bank deposits or cash would not be replaced by the CBDC. However, it would operate as parallel to them. Moreover, Je revealed, the facilities like easy transactions of big sums, getting rid of physical cash, as well as audit trail for capturing tax evasion and corruption are similarly provided by a CBDC.

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Mubashar Nawaz (United Arab Emirates)

Mubashar Nawaz is an experienced crypto writer working for Tokenhell. Having passion for writing, he covers news articles from blockchain to cryptocurrency.

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