“Cryptocurrencies are emerging as an economic force in some ways disruptive. Their ability to operate outside traditional banking circuits and to challenge the centrality of sovereign currencies is leading to new forms of economic independence ». So the Minister of Economy, Giancarlo Giorgetti.
«The growing diffusion of digital coins puts under pressure the traditional mechanisms of economic and political control, opening new frontiers for financial exchanges, but also for finance activities that are not always lawful»Adds Giorgetti to the oath of the official students of the Guardia di Finanza in Bergamo. “Customs rates and virtual coins, therefore, in a different but equally effective way, are means that condition not only the economy but also international politics”, concludes the minister.