“It is my ambition to make the UK a global hub for cryptoasset technology”.
Those were the April 2022 words of then-Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak when the UK government announced plans to bring certain cryptocurrencies, known as stablecoins, into regulation.
A year later, under the now-Prime Minister’s leadership, Mr Sunak appears ready to put his digital money where his mouth is.
The digital pound consultation launched in February 2023...