{"id":612687,"date":"2026-06-11T11:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=821976"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:30:19","slug":"south-african-reserve-bank-backs-payshap-over-digital-rand-as-cassim-targets-real-time-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/south-african-reserve-bank-backs-payshap-over-digital-rand-as-cassim-targets-real-time-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Reserve Bank Backs Payshap Over Digital Rand as Cassim Targets Real-Time Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/south_african_reserve_bank_logo_nwmk-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>The South African Reserve Bank has decided to pause the immediate implementation of a digital rand despite successfully testing its technical feasibility. Digital Rand Trials Reveal Privacy and Speed Tradeoffs The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has no compelling need to immediately launch a digital version of its currency, a top official said, citing significant [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Reserve Bank has decided to pause the immediate implementation of a digital rand despite successfully testing its technical feasibility. Digital Rand Trials Reveal Privacy and Speed Tradeoffs The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has no compelling need to immediately launch a digital version of its currency, a top official said, citing significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":612688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-612687","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\/612687","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=612687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}