ECB’s Lagarde Wants Regulation on Bitcoin

Christine Lagarde is delivering some bearish comments for the Euro and Bitcoin

Written by: Skerdian Meta • Wednesday, January 13, 2021 • 1 min read

• Last updated: Wednesday, January 13, 2021

The president of the European Central Bank, was holding a speech earlier today. She spoke on the economic situation and projections and the Euro, but also touched on cryptocurrencies and particularly Bitcoin. Her comments should be bearish for both coins, but not at this moment, since the sentiment is driving markets around again.

ECB President Christine Lagarde Remarks on Cyptocurrencies

Bitcoin is a speculative asset
Bitcoin needs regulation
Bitcoin has facilitated ‘funny business’, some reprehensible activity
We will have a digital euro
Hopes it would be no more than 5 years before digital euro

I think she answered her own question as to why there will be people who would still prefer Bitcoin over central bank digital currencies. Is it mostly/purely speculative? Sure, one can say that it is. But it is an interesting experiment on human/investor psychology.

Comments on the Euro

We are monitoring exchange rate movements very carefully
But we do not target it
ECB will be ‘extremely attentive’ to exchange rate impact on prices

A bit of a warning in case the euro decides to take on a life of its own moving forward. That said, if there is a general dollar depreciation that feeds into euro strength, that will be something hard for them to really do anything about. Sure, they can offer up some verbal intervention as per the above but for now, EUR/USD still has room to roam between 1.20 to 1.25 as far as I would say.

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Skerdian Meta Lead Analyst. Skerdian is a professional Forex trader and a market analyst. He has been actively engaged in market analysis for the past 11 years. Before becoming our head analyst, Skerdian served as a trader and market analyst in Saxo Bank's local branch, Aksioner. Skerdian specialized in experimenting with developing models and hands-on trading. Skerdian has a masters degree in finance and investment.