-Source-Forbes-
In his opening remarks at the Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade (Committee on Financial Services) Hearing: ‘The Future of Money: Digital Currency’ on July 18, 2018, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) called for the prohibition of both buying and mining cryptocurrencies (crypto) for all US citizens.
With this statement, he turned over the cryptocurrency rock, and true to form, the denizens underneath predictably scurried about, spouting tired, fallacious counterarguments on social media and in the crypto press.
Sherman’s argument calling for the ban of crypto in the US contrasted crypto and the US dollar. “The role of the US dollar in an international financial system is a critical component of US power,” Sherman said. “It brought Iran to the negotiating table.”
Regardless of one’s opinion on the deal the US and its allies made with Iran, “we would have nothing had it not been for the role of the dollar,” Sherman added.
The power of the US dollar overseas depends in large part upon its seigniorage – the difference between the face value of currency and the cost of printing it. “There is seigniorage, the money that we make as a country because we’re the reserve currency, because we can issue a greenback that does not yield interest,” Sherman explained. “There are people who are alive today because of the profits the US government makes on that, whether it be to fund defense or medical research, all of that gets diminished with cryptocurrency.” Read more
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