Yves Mersch of the European Central Bank (ECB), said that the Balance of the monetary policy of the European Central Bank itself.
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Balance is harmful for the economic stability of
At a meeting of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, and was expressed by Yves Mersch, member of the board of management, had his doubts about the Balance of Facebook. He spoke about the risks associated with the cryptovaluta for economic stability.
Mersch calls the project as “the seductive but treacherous”. He believes that the company currency in’s little to no chance of success as a reliable alternative to the fiat currencies (like the euro and the us dollar. Also, the rest of the Balance of the Association as well as the reputation of Facebook.
The Libra Foundation is a cartel
During his speech, he pointed out that the Balance is coming from the same people who are against the United States and the European Union had to be defended. Facebook was forced to as a result of a leak of their personal data, defend it, according to Mersch, is a threat to our democracy. In a clear reference to the Cambridge Analytica.
One other concern that Mersch to the songs brought up, it is the intent of the Balance of the Association. He refers to it as a cartel of major companies in the field of payment technology, and telecommunications industries.
As a result of this Balance, none of the characteristic features of cryptocurrency’s. It’s not decentralised, it is not publicly available, or to be limitless, nor censuurbestendig, or neutral. It has been a real attempt by big companies to play the role of central banks (escb) to play with.
If you have a central bank
Mersch, that’s what fiat currencies are centralized, and but, in contrast to Libra, they have a sovereign entity, a central uitgifteautoriteit. His concern is mainly focused on the reliability of the companies with which the project will be managed. According to Mersch, there is no guarantee that these companies are in the best interest of the consumers, but also because they have access to private information that could be used.
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He said that only an independent central bank, and the trust of consumers, as it is a central bank of a currency is reliable.
In his speech, he spoke of all the European citizens, due to not being tempted by such projects as Balance. Also, he hopes that the citizens have the safety and reliability of well-established solutions, and the fiat currencies will not let go of it. During his speech he emphasized Mersch repeated that, for consumers, private companies do not trust, in order to have a healthy monetary system.
However, close to the ECB is not all the way down for the computer.
The stance of central banks in relation to modern forms of money will change over time. The central banks have the technological developments in the field of money, will be embraced and will be a key to new innovations continue to be explored.
A more important question is, to think of Mersch’s really in the best interest of the consumers in the Eu? If this is a shock reaction because it has a monopoly on the creation of money is sometimes taken out of his hands, can it be?
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