{"id":1768,"date":"2016-12-15T15:44:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.holytransaction.com\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2016-12-15T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:44:15","slug":"denmark-bitcoin-digitalize-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/denmark-bitcoin-digitalize-currency.html","title":{"rendered":"Denmark Bitcoin: Digitalizing National Currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today I want to talk about the <strong>Denmark Bitcoin position and regulation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Denmark is a place where its <strong>citizens relie on cash less than most other European countries,<\/strong> so it is thinking about <strong>digitalizing its national currency<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">To do so, the Danish central bank wants to release its own digital currency based on a blockchain and it will be called <strong>e-krone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Governor of the Danish central bank, <strong>Lars Rohde<\/strong>. commented that the government doesn\u2019t want to print its own fiat currency in the future.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">So Rohde is looking for <strong>outsourcing the production of Danish krone<\/strong> and wants to replace it with its independent financial system based on the distributed ledger technology: the e-krone.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an <strong>interview conducted by Bloomberg<\/strong>, Rohde explained that the Danish central bank effort is not related to the blockchain technology or alternative fintech technologies:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cWe\u2019re not preoccupied with the technology because we know that issue well.\u00a0<\/em>Cash and notes are not an alternative to electronic payments. We went beyond that many years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, the most important problem the central bank is worried about is <strong>the anonymity of the e-krone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the moment, the Danish bank believes that the e-krone will have a serial number embedded onto its Blockchain, so <strong>the government will be able to track the currency <\/strong>thanks to a <strong>transparent ledger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, another issue about the anonymity of a currency are the predictable complaints by the Danish citizens who expect to be provided with<strong> financial freedom and privacy. <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cAll money held by Danes will eventually end up in the central bank in the event of a financial crisis, and we will indirectly end up doing a bailout because we become a creditor to all the banks.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">But<strong> the distributed ledger tech is not applicable to the concept of the Danish central bank<\/strong>, as structurally it cannot be established for the central bank as network moderator.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">To read more news about Denmark Bitcoin position, <a href=\"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/blog\/?s=denmark&amp;submit=Search\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Open your free digital wallet <a href=\"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/app#!\/signup\">here<\/a> to store your cryptocurrencies in a safe place.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I want to talk about the Denmark Bitcoin position and regulation. 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