Cryptocurrencies Are Nowhere Alike USD - James Bullard.
2021-02-16 | Robin Williams

The president of the
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, James Bullard, seemingly doesn’t understand why several are looking to cryptocurrencies as a medium of exchange
rather than a consistent currency
just like the USD.
In an interview with CNBC’s on Tuesday, Bullard
added that
the difficulty for creating payments isn’t currencies that will be traded electronically but rather privately issued ones, as
is the case
for several crypto assets. He referenced a time
within the U.S. prior to the Civil War when there was confusion & a dislike for trading the “equivalent of Bank of America dollars & JPMorgan dollars along with Wells Fargo dollars.”
“I think a similar thing would occur with Bitcoin here,” explained Bullard. “You don't need to go to a non-uniform currency where you're walking into Starbucks and perhaps you'll pay with Ethereum, maybe you'll pay with Ripple, maybe you'll pay with Bitcoin, maybe you'll pay with a dollar - that might not how we do that.”

The Fed president referenced other privately issued currencies globally that are required to abide by equivalent restrictions as any currency issued by a central authority. He added that private currencies aren't
ready to maintain a stable value against goods and other currencies, neither are their future supply "at all clear."
Bullard’s comments came as Bitcoin [
BTC] hit
a new all-time high price of over $50k, today on Tuesday morning. Though the Fed president added that characterizing the cryptocurrencies as a rival to gold “might be
an honest due to thinking about” Bitcoin, he largely reserved his bull run remarks for the USD.
“It's getting to be a dollar economy as far as the eye can see and a dollar global economy really as far as the eye can see. Whether the gold price goes up or down or the Bitcoin price goes up or down doesn't really affect that.”
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