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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Crypto, a daily Bloomberg I Heard podcast,

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Speaker 1: and I'm Stacy Marie Ishmael, Managing editor of Crypto for

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg News. It's Tuesday, November one. About a year ago,

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Speaker 1: Nigeria introduced a digital version of its official currency, the naira.

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Speaker 1: The introduction of the so called e Nira was partly

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Speaker 1: a response to concerns that the rising popularity of crypto

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Speaker 1: in the country was going to threaten the banking system.

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Speaker 1: Now there are a few countries experimenting with their own

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Speaker 1: versions of digital money, including the Central African Republic, which

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Speaker 1: we've talked about in the show, China, Jamaica, the Bahamas,

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Speaker 1: and various islands in the Eastern Caribbean. Other countries, including

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Speaker 1: where I am in the United States, are in the

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Speaker 1: studying and thinking deep thoughts about feasibility phase of things.

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Speaker 1: So how's it going for Nigeria and then Era, let's

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Speaker 1: ask Bloomberg reporter Ruth Ola Rumby is the one year

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Speaker 1: and only zero points five percent of the population is

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Speaker 1: just in um either nire and Bloomberg Nigeria Bureau chief

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Speaker 1: Anthony Osai Brown Usability is key, all right? Now, the

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Speaker 1: usability argument is very little for its occurrencies. One of

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Speaker 1: the topics that we cover a lot on this podcast

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Speaker 1: is obviously digital assets, and you know, within digital assets

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Speaker 1: certainly crypto cryptos. In the name that say is the

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Crypto Podcast. But we've also talked about something called

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Speaker 1: central bank digital currencies, which is the idea of governments

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Speaker 1: themselves issuing a kind of digital cash. Can you all

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Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about what the Nigerian ex

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Speaker 1: periament with digital money has been like. Okay, so the

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Speaker 1: Nigerent Central Bank launched a data currency about a year

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Speaker 1: form of an alternity to the nira um and that

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Speaker 1: was interestingly, after asking financial institutions not to honor crypto transactions,

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Speaker 1: he felt he needed an alternative to crypto transactions, so

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Speaker 1: it launched the inn Era to sort of replace crypto.

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Speaker 1: And so that's what the central bank has been doing

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Speaker 1: for some time now, and interestingly, the currency has not

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Speaker 1: picked up, possibly as much as the central bank bop

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Speaker 1: it would. Since then, Yeah, they've they've had about a

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Speaker 1: million people downloading the inn Era. What percentage of the

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Speaker 1: Five percent of the population is currently used in the admira.

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Speaker 1: The right of adoption has been slow, and that's messing

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Speaker 1: because people are not either not trust in the government

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Speaker 1: many people also don't know about what's innira is. So

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Speaker 1: you've got a country with a population of more than

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Speaker 1: say two hundred million. The government didn't exactly ban crypto,

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Speaker 1: but the central Bank made it pretty clear that it

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Speaker 1: reasons for that was trying to encourage people who live

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Speaker 1: that's relatively correct. The innigent population about five per center

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Speaker 1: Bank talked it to be the innira. Well, if five

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Speaker 1: So that that was the idea to increase financial inclusion

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Speaker 1: like that's what's happening. There's been a lot of challenges.

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Speaker 1: You know, we have interviewed some folks who have written

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Speaker 1: angry emails about that feel free crypto at Bloomberg dot net.

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Speaker 1: But what I'm going to say is that, you know,

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Speaker 1: by a government, right, whereas tokens like bitcoin, ether doage

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Speaker 1: like entity someone described them, describe them as private currency,

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Speaker 1: private currencies, government currency, and the private currency indeed. And

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Speaker 1: right because it's like when you're you're borrowing, if you

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Speaker 1: and so far that intervention is not coming, and that

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Speaker 1: awareness is not just going to usability is key all

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Speaker 1: It's been one year and only zero points five percent

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