LONDON (Reuters) - It didn’t seem like a revolution.
Dawn Sands, owner of NRG cafe, takes payment from a customer with central bank digital currency in Nassau, the Bahamas in November 2020 in this handout image obtained by Reuters on December 17, 2020. Central Bank of The Bahamas (CBoB)/Handout via REUTERS
A botanical green smoothie and a snapper fish burger, it was. In a Bahamas health-food cafe.
But future generations might look back at this as a pivotal moment - the first national launch of a technology that could upend commercial banking and even shake the U.S. dollar’s status as the world’s de facto currency.