Tunisia has become the first country to officially announce and start the development work on its national currency to a blockchain platform.
The Central Bank of Tunisia has said that the virtual money will be issued using a platform created by Russian developers – Universa Blockchain – where the Universa will receive a percentage of all transactions in e-dinar while making the ledger visible to the Central Bank of Tunisia.
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The e-dinar will be state-owned and backed by paper money while the blockchain protects against counterfeiting and makes the issuance of the digital currency cheaper and more transparent.
The Founder and CEO of Universa, Alexander Borodich, however says that electronic money like e-dinar is not truly cryptocurrency. While e-dinar, like cryptocurrency, is traceable and protected via a blockchain, unlike cryptocurrency however, it is state-owned and provided with real, paper money.
Heads of Central Banks and Universa Founder, Alexander Borodich“Electronic banknotes cannot be faked – each such banknote, like the paper version, is protected by cryptography, it, like the paper counterpart, has its own digital watermarks. And the production of such banknote is 100 times cheaper than wasting ink, paper, electricity for the printing press.” ~ Alexander Borodich, CEO, Universa Blockchain
As a result of this development, Tunisia will not be issuing a new currency. Instead, part of the country’s paper money will go into the pledge of electronic money. While the head of the Central Bank of Tunisia and an IMF representative participated in the symbolic operation to transfer one dinar from one account to another, thus starting the system, there was not mention of how much money will go into electronic form.
Tunisia does not have a leading position on the African continent and is ranked 78 in the Doing Business ranking.
Interestingly, Maghreb countries – Morocco, Algeria, and Mauritania – took place in the electronic money presentation in Tunis, sparking speculation that they could join the project, unite under one system, and conduct international payments with electronic money at an agreed rate.
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