Afghanistan and Tunisia will issue bitcoin bonds
The central banks of Afghanistan and Tunisia are considering the possibility of issuing bonds in cryptocurrencies
The financial authorities from both nations revealed the news of launching digital currency bonds when speaking at the annual spring meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund in Washington which was held in recent days.
The governor of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, Khalil Sediq, affirmed that the country is studying the possibility of issuing a state bond in cryptographic currencies. For this purpose, blockchain technology would be used as an instrument to raise US $ 5.8 billion to invest in private companies dedicated to agriculture, mining and energy field.
Meanwhile, Marouane El Abassi, the governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia, said that his country established a working group that also studies the idea of issuing a bitcoin bonus. It is worth noting that Tunisia was one of the first countries to launch a digital currency and made payments through a digitized system developed by DigitUS.
In the course of the meetings other nations were interested in the measure. For example, Uzbekistan, whose ambassador Javlon Vakhabov said that his country should not be discarded among those who could develop the first sovereign bonus in bitcoin. This country is currently studying cryptocurrencies and decentralized technology.
For its part, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, said it considers possible the issuance of these bonds but in principle it should be a “closed sandbox” and would be under supervision.
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Source: Coincrispy
