Bitcoin is trending in Turkey, and the country’s central bank officials are starting to notice. This week President Murat Cetinkaya of the Central Bank of Turkey (CBRT) said the financial institution is monitoring bitcoin closely, and spoke optimistically about digital currencies. According to local news outlets in Istanbul, the president of the Turkish central bank, the CBRT, said officials from the region are researching cryptocurrencies. Murat Cetinkaya explains that the CBRT has formed a research group consisting of digital asset market participants, Turkish government officials, and regulators. The country’s banking regulator has explained current financial law does not apply to bitcoin, but has cautioned Turkish citizens against using the currency. Now in a more positive light, president Cetinkaya says cryptocurrencies like bitcoin could “contribute to financial stability.”
This does not seem like a good news, since he is actively encouraging citizens of his country to not adopt bitcoin and to not use it, then he tries to rectify a little bit saying bitcoin can contribute to the economy and that is right, but bitcoin is going to contribute to help the people and not the governments that are there only to steal from the hardworking people which are always taken advantage of by politicians and bankers.
Well the notion that he is right in is the notion that Bitcoin can help the economy, though it's not like Bitcoin is going to be making jobs out of thin air. They're going to be taking jobs from other sectors, such as Credit Card processing, Paypal, etc and so on and so forth. Bitcoin is a pretty big net negative for the economy and for businesses.
And is it even suprising to see the HEAD OF THE FUCKING CENTRAL BANK being against something like this? He stands to lose all of his power if Bitcoin gains some traction in his country and takes over the #1 currency thing in their country. Sad, but it's true.