The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, has revealed that Nigeria will launch a digital currency. With this, Nigeria tracks other nations which plan or have launched digital currencies. China is expected to roll out the e-yuan, its digital currency, at scale, later in the year. The United States has also started work on e-dollars.
The apex bank boss revealed this plan during the 279th MPR meeting held today in Abuja- “We are committed in the CBN and I can assure everybody that digital currency will come to life even in Nigeria” – Nairametrics reports.
He said, “We have carried out our investigation and we found out that a substantial percentage of our people are getting involved in cryptocurrency which is not the best. Don’t get me wrong, some may be legitimate but most are illegitimate.”
Under cryptocurrency and Bitcoin, Nigeria comes 2nd while on the global side of the economy, Nigeria comes 27th. We are still conducting our investigation and we will make our data available.
What's the way forward for Nigerians? Is this good news for them after the ban of trading crypto with banks
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https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/463912-nigeria-will-soon-create-digital-currency-cbn.htmlThis is very interesting seeing countries that where once against the existence of cryptocurrency are now adopting it maybe because of it future value and market revenue that would be of a good source of monetary regulation and control by linking it to one's bank. This would be a very good innovation for Nigerians and it's economy and as time goes on, many countries also would start seeing reasons of adopting it existance into government policies and establishment.
I think Nigerian government had once banned the use of cryptocurrency and it's activities tracking people and firms that are into crypto transactions, enforcing sanctions and harsh policies on them by freezing their accounts limiting their access to their own funds. Now it's a good news to see this country now coming up with good prospect of acceptance of cryptocurrency in general for business transactions and means of payment system.
The Government is very smart and always looking for ways to balance economy activities whenever they discovered a decline in the patronage in their own market and Fiat currency especially when their is a huge dump in the use of their own currency when it loses value.