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State involvement in cryptocurrencies. A potential world money?

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  • Juan J. Duque

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This article is about the role that states play in the research and development of cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology. Some states, for instance China, are about to launch their own state-backed cryptocurrency perhaps due to the potential of this new type of digital money to become world money. To support this argument, Marxist monetary theory is deployed to show that cryptocurrencies could be conceived as potential digital commodity money, a new and incorporeal type of commodity money with intrinsic value but without use value. Lacking a natural form, it could potentially have only a “formal” use value: direct exchangeability with all other commodities. If states manage to actualise this potential by issuing their own cryptocurrencies and making them legal tender money, cryptocurrencies could function as international means of payments and means of hoarding perhaps more efficiently than credit money. In the case of China, this means that this new digital money would have a chance of competing with the US dollar as international reserve currency.

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  • Juan J. Duque, 2020. "State involvement in cryptocurrencies. A potential world money?," Japanese Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(1), pages 65-82, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:jpneco:v:46:y:2020:i:1:p:65-82
    DOI: 10.1080/2329194X.2020.1763185
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    1. Raphael Auer & Giulio Cornelli & Jon Frost, 2020. "Rise of the central bank digital currencies: drivers, approaches and technologies," BIS Working Papers 880, Bank for International Settlements.
    2. Ngo, Vu Minh & Van Nguyen, Phuc & Nguyen, Huan Huu & Thi Tram, Huong Xuan & Hoang, Long Cuu, 2023. "Governance and monetary policy impacts on public acceptance of CBDC adoption," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 64(C).

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