{"id":470782,"date":"2025-08-03T07:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T07:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=745511"},"modified":"2025-08-03T07:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T07:30:15","slug":"botswana-explores-potential-launch-of-central-bank-digital-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/03\/botswana-explores-potential-launch-of-central-bank-digital-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Explores Potential Launch of Central Bank Digital Currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-central-business-district-cbd-gaborone-botswana-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Botswana Explores Potential Launch of Central Bank Digital Currency\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>The Bank of Botswana is in the early stages of a feasibility study to evaluate whether to introduce a central bank digital currency (CBDC). According to Ruth Baitshepi, head of the digitalization and innovation hub, the study aims to assess both the necessity of a CBDC and the potential risks digital assets pose to the [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Botswana is in the early stages of a feasibility study to evaluate whether to introduce a central bank digital currency (CBDC). According to Ruth Baitshepi, head of the digitalization and innovation hub, the study aims to assess both the necessity of a CBDC and the potential risks digital assets pose to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":470783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-470782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}