Jul 7, 2019,6:17 am
Billy Bambrough
I write about how bitcoin, crypto and blockchain can change the world.
Bitcoin and other crypto-assets have long divided traditional economists and bankers with some warning over their instability and others praising their ingenuity.
The bitcoin price rebound so far this yearhas caused some to change sides, though many continue to warn bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will be a mere flash in the pan.
Earlier this year, Christine Lagarde, who has just been nominated to replace Mario Draghi as president of the European Central Bank (ECB), warned that cryptocurrencies are “shaking the system”—something that could signal a change in the ECB’s approach to bitcoin and crypto and potentially spur adoption.
International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has been nominated to take over from European Central Bank boss Mario Draghi—and her attitude towards bitcoin and cryptocurrencies could be important. GETTY
“I think the role of the disruptors and anything that is using distributed ledger technology, whether you call it crypto, assets, currencies, or whatever … that is clearly shaking the system,” the 63-year-old Lagarde told CNBC in April.
“We don’t want to shake the system so much that we would lose the stability that is needed,” she added.
Those comments earlier this year follow an interview with Lagarde in 2017 where she warned the power of cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology should not be dismissed.
Meanwhile, the bitcoin and cryptocurrency community has largely welcomed Lagarde’s nomination to the top job at the ECB, with some expecting her openness to crypto to be “good for the industry.”
“Several people have pointed out to me already is that the next ECB boss is incredibly crypto friendly,” Mati Greenspan, senior market analyst at brokerage eToro wrote in a note to clients this week. “Indeed, Christine Lagarde who is set to replace Mario Draghi on 1 November is extremely pro digital assets.”
“Not bitcoin, of course, but she has advocated already for state-backed cryptocurrencies as well as settlement tokens like XRP and JPM coin. We can expect that someone so crypto friendly in such a position will be good for the industry as a whole.”
Billy Bambrough
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Crypto & Blockchain
Crypto & Blockchain
I write about how bitcoin, crypto and blockchain can change the world.
Bitcoin and other crypto-assets have long divided traditional economists and bankers with some warning over their instability and others praising their ingenuity.
The bitcoin price rebound so far this yearhas caused some to change sides, though many continue to warn bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will be a mere flash in the pan.
Earlier this year, Christine Lagarde, who has just been nominated to replace Mario Draghi as president of the European Central Bank (ECB), warned that cryptocurrencies are “shaking the system”—something that could signal a change in the ECB’s approach to bitcoin and crypto and potentially spur adoption.
International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has been nominated to take over from European Central Bank boss Mario Draghi—and her attitude towards bitcoin and cryptocurrencies could be important. GETTY
“I think the role of the disruptors and anything that is using distributed ledger technology, whether you call it crypto, assets, currencies, or whatever … that is clearly shaking the system,” the 63-year-old Lagarde told CNBC in April.
“We don’t want to shake the system so much that we would lose the stability that is needed,” she added.
Those comments earlier this year follow an interview with Lagarde in 2017 where she warned the power of cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology should not be dismissed.
Meanwhile, the bitcoin and cryptocurrency community has largely welcomed Lagarde’s nomination to the top job at the ECB, with some expecting her openness to crypto to be “good for the industry.”
“Several people have pointed out to me already is that the next ECB boss is incredibly crypto friendly,” Mati Greenspan, senior market analyst at brokerage eToro wrote in a note to clients this week. “Indeed, Christine Lagarde who is set to replace Mario Draghi on 1 November is extremely pro digital assets.”
“Not bitcoin, of course, but she has advocated already for state-backed cryptocurrencies as well as settlement tokens like XRP and JPM coin. We can expect that someone so crypto friendly in such a position will be good for the industry as a whole.”
The bitcoin price has been charging higher so far this year, pushed on by tech company interest in crypto and blockchain. COINDESK
Lagarde appears to have a different opinion of bitcoin and crypto to that of outgoing ECB president Mario Draghi, who earlier this year said cryptocurrencies are not currencies, but “highly risky” assets, distancing the ECB and other central banks from crypto experimentation and the responsibility of regulating cryptocurrencies.
Elsewhere, Lagarde’s background as a politician has caused some to predict she will take a radically different approach to running the ECB than that of her predecessors, all of whom have been traditionally trained economists over the ECB’s 21-year history.
As the likes of social media giant Facebookand Wall Street banks including J.P. Morgan get stuck into bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, it will become more difficult for institutions like the ECB to sideline them—and Lagarde might find bitcoin and crypto requires more of her attention than she expects.
Lagarde appears to have a different opinion of bitcoin and crypto to that of outgoing ECB president Mario Draghi, who earlier this year said cryptocurrencies are not currencies, but “highly risky” assets, distancing the ECB and other central banks from crypto experimentation and the responsibility of regulating cryptocurrencies.
Elsewhere, Lagarde’s background as a politician has caused some to predict she will take a radically different approach to running the ECB than that of her predecessors, all of whom have been traditionally trained economists over the ECB’s 21-year history.
As the likes of social media giant Facebookand Wall Street banks including J.P. Morgan get stuck into bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, it will become more difficult for institutions like the ECB to sideline them—and Lagarde might find bitcoin and crypto requires more of her attention than she expects.
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