Britcoin: Will Countries Convert to Crypto?

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British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has been making headlines today as it is understood he is pushing a major upheaval of the monetary system in the UK, with a digital version of the pound, dubbed ‘Britcoin’ — an official government crypto-currency, otherwise known as a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). In April, Sunak launched a task force to look into ways to boost (and, in truth, revive) the…