As investment banks seriously discuss Bitcoin’s potential as a central bank reserve asset, public debate often centers on price volatility and regulatory sentiment. Yet, for policymakers and architects of national financial security, the issue instantly collapses from macroeconomics into an intensely concrete and grave challenge of state systems engineering. How does one custody hundreds of billions in value, an asset controlled by mere lines of private key code, with no sovereign backing? Tr...

Global finance faces inefficiency and fragmented digital money. BIS responds with CBDCs, Bridge, and programmable compliance.

As investment banks seriously discuss Bitcoin’s potential as a central bank reserve asset, public debate often centers on price volatility and regulatory sentiment. Yet, for policymakers and architects of national financial security, the issue instantly collapses from macroeconomics into an intensely concrete and grave challenge of state systems engineering. How does one custody hundreds of billions in value, an asset controlled by mere lines of private key code, with no sovereign backing? Tr...

Global finance faces inefficiency and fragmented digital money. BIS responds with CBDCs, Bridge, and programmable compliance.

Belgian bank KBC will offer 4 million customers the service to purchase "bitcoin certificates," with transactions completed within the bank's internal systems.

Belgian bank KBC will offer 4 million customers the service to purchase "bitcoin certificates," with transactions completed within the bank's internal systems.