An official with Japan's central bank has weighed in on the topic of national digital currencies, raising questions about the ripple effects that these instruments might create in a country's financial system. (ethnews.com)
One more nation, South Africa, is making the first step of migration to a fully digital economy, speaking about offering their own national digital currency based on blockchain technology. (bitcoinist.com)
If governments look to create national digital currency we'd be very happy to look at those in a more favourable way [compared with existing cryptocurrencies]. (bitcoinist.com)