Will the World move towards digital money?
Today’s cash use will shift to digital tokens in the future as technology has invented hundreds of digital currencies, based on digital ledgers. Virtual money is bound to become a tool for wielding global influence by carving up the world into new currency blocs. Whereas the top one is Bitcoin.
For sure, governments will borrow some elements of the distributed ledger technology behind private cryptocurrencies, but they will very much want to retain control of what circulates as money in their economies. It is expected that the e-wallet on your smartphone resembles a multicurrency account. But instead of dealing with commercial banks, you may be a customer of central banks.
Over the past decade, the growth of the digital economy and the rise of electronic commerce has accelerated a shift to virtual payments. Now with the spread of COVID-19 and fears regarding the risk of contaminated physical cash, what we are seeing is a potential permanent shift to digital currencies. Even as the world mobilizes against COVID-19, digital commerce is expanding dramatically.
During World War II, countries around the world poured money into transforming communications, transportation, and weapons technology. During the COVID times, we have seen a few segments has shifted towards digital money has been accelerating for some time. It true that, if the current cyber crime does not control, many will prefer to back to the cash transactions.
Today, the vast majority of transactions are already executed digitally. Of the sum total of money in the world, which is about $80 trillion - only 10 percent is held as coins or bank notes. The remaining 90% is held as virtual money on digital ledgers. What we are seeing today is the rise of financial technologies (FinTech) in the mass disruption of physical currencies.
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