A Harvard Ph.D. candidate defends in a paper that Bitcoin reserves are an optimal alternative for central banks at the time to fight sanctions.
A working paper, titled “Hedging Sanctions Risk: Cryptocurrency in Central Bank Reserves,”by Matthew Ferranti, a Ph.D. candidate at the university’s economics department, explored the potential of Bitcoin as an alternative hedging asset for central banks to fight off potential sanctions.
Ferranti argued that there’s merit for central banks to hold a small amount of Bitcoin even in normal circumstances. However, when there’s a risk of sanctions, the researcher said that it makes sense to hold a larger portion of BTC along with their gold reserves. In the paper, the researcher also pointed out that countries that were facing risks of sanctions from the United States have been increasing the share of their gold reserves much more than countries that had less sanction risk. If these central banks cannot acquire enough gold to hedge the risks of sanctions, the researcher argued that Bitcoin reserves are an optimal alternative.
Apart from this, the researcher believes that the risk of sanctions may eventually spur diversification in central bank reserves, strengthening the value of crypto and gold. Ferranti concluded that there are significant benefits in diversifying reserves and allocating portions to both Bitcoin and gold.
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