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This description is too funny :) It does have a high amount of old man screaming at the cloud. You can have a lot of valid critical views of cryptocurrency (environmental impact / gambling aspect ), but this his view is very unhelpful

Does CPB actually has anything to say here? I was expecting "De Nederlandse Bank" to be the organisation to set the rules here.

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This is purely the personal opinion of a pubic official. Neither organization has any regulatory power on this topic. CPB is an independent agency providing economic prognoses and analysis. DNB is in charge of monetary policy but doesn't have the power to completely ban cryptocurrency.

Anyway, when the ministry of finance investigated a crypto ban back in 2018 they concluded that it would be completely impractical to enforce such a ban. I don't think that has changed in any way.

Does CPB actually has anything to say here?

No. They deliver forecasts and analysis for government policy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_for_Economic_Policy_Ana...

> but this his view is very unhelpful

Did you read it? If so, why do you take this opinion?

> Does CPB actually has anything to say here?

The CPB does analysis to inform public policy making, they're not a legislative body. Neither is the DNB for that matter, the Ministry of Finance would make these laws.

No, it's not a regulator and thus has no actual say over this matter. It supports policymakers by evaluating the economic effects of their plans.

https://www.cpb.nl/en/what-does-cpb-do

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