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Us Congressmen Urge Fed to Consider Creating National Digital Currency

Two US Congress officials are looking into the surge of cryptocurrency, they believe that the US dollar could be on the verge of being left out.

While digitization is at its peak and governments are modernizing the Financial operation systems, reimagining the ways to transfer, disburse & amass money.

The officials Bill Foster and French Hill issued an open letter to the Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell expressing their skepticisms regarding the stature of the US dollar currently.

The representatives, Foster & Hill raising the requests to Federal Reserve Board asking answers to the list of inquiries pertaining to the making of the digital US currency.

While Libra is trying hard to please the regulators and lawmakers around the world, governments see the rise of a humongous, scalable project, that will be influential all over the world, without the interference of banks. It has already paved the way for a platform with billions of people registered to transact money worldwide.

But the ongoing events in the criminal wake is prompting the lawmakers to reimagine tackling the danger to the US currency.

The letter states,

Given that the need to regulate the currency to protect the US dollar is seen as imperative, the officials state different pilot tests along with the instances around the world.

They added,

They also note that the risks from the private sector, slowly taking form.

Ronald Cribbs: Ronald Cribbs is a reporter who has studied in Journalism and previously worked as a freelance reporter in well-known publications and financial news websites. He is regularly going for the interview with leading industry players of crypto space. He has been following cryptocurrencies since 2012.