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James Bullard of Federal Reserve keen on “Stable Money Than Volatile Crypto” at consensus conference

At this year’s consensus conference in New York City, James Bullard, St. Louis Federal Reserve President, was lately questioned.

The chief candidate to form the US monetary policy was in attendance is victory enough; Followed by an interview, where he was questioned his thoughts on cryptocurrency going forward. He elucidated he initiate the phenomenon “interesting,” and how more cryptos being issued all time necessitates keeping an “eye” on them. Mr. Bullard also compared the use case for cryptocurrencies with that of the dollar, and whether the former posed a threat to the latter.

A presentation was also delivered at this year’s giant Consensus conference in New York City by him. A sedentary chief of Fed policymaking believed it important enough to attend a crypto soiree. However, more importantly, President gave a presentation on the government’s prevailing rational on cryptocurrency.

During this occasion, he acknowledged crypto is facilitating the trade that might otherwise not occur. He couldn’t help himself by mentioning illegal activity (and we all know fiat currencies are never used in illegal activity), but he did describe decentralized money’s lean toward frictionless transactions (especially with regard to costs/fees) as being an advancement.

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