How Indonesia’s G20 presidency should cope with digital currencies

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): The rapid development of digital technology affects the global economic system and financial transactions. One of the hot issues is related to the use of digital currencies or cryptocurrencies in the world's financial system.

The use of digital currencies globally is like two sides of a coin. On the one hand, many people welcome the presence of this type of currency as a single-world currency solution; on the other hand, there are those who consider them a threat to the mature conventional financial system.