The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday apprised the board members about its reservations around private cryptocurrencies while updating the progress on its yet-to-be launched Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). In the 592nd meeting of RBI’s board of directors at Lucknow, senior officials, including Governor Shaktikanta Das, who also headed the board, discussed a host of issues, including the CBDC.
Cryptocurrencies, according to a source, was not part of the agenda, but one board member wanted to know why the central bank wanted to ban private cryptocurrencies. Currently, ...
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