GBNews published this video item, entitled “Should the Bank of England launch its own ‘Britcoin’ digital currency?” – below is their description.
Simon and Alex are joined by Edmund Greaves, the Editor of Mouthy Money to discuss the Bank of England’s plans to launch a digital currency, similar to Bitcoin.
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The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694 to act as the English Government’s banker, and still one of the bankers for the Government of the United Kingdom, it is the world’s eighth-oldest bank.
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto and started in 2009 when its implementation was released as open-source software. Bitcoin was the first decentralized cryptocurrency.
