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UK Treasury drops plans for Royal Mint NFT

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The UK has shelved plans to launch a government-backed “NFT for Britain,” which was initially proposed by crypto-friendly Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Whereas serving as chancellor of the Exchequer, the equal of a chief monetary minister, Sunak requested the Royal Mint in April 2022 to create an “NFT for Britain” as a part of the federal government’s “ambition to make the UK a worldwide hub for crypto-asset know-how and funding.”

The venture was meant to be launched by the summer season of 2022, however has finally failed to fulfill the deadline.

Requested by the chair of the Treasury Choose Committee whether or not there was nonetheless a plan for the Royal Mint to problem a nonfungible token on March 27, Financial Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Griffith famous that:

“In session with HM Treasury, the Royal Mint isn’t continuing with the launch of a Non-Fungible Token at the moment however will hold this proposal beneath overview.”

Harriet Baldwin, the chair of the Treasury Choose Committee who posed the query in Parliament, was later quoted in a March 26 BBC report saying:

“Now we have not but seen plenty of proof that our constituents ought to be placing their cash in these speculative tokens until they’re ready to lose all their cash.”

“So maybe that’s the reason the Royal Mint has made this resolution together with the Treasury,” she added.

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The NFT for Britain idea finally seems to be fairly imprecise, because the Royal Mint and Treasury haven’t elaborated on what the NFTs would do and the way they might be used.

On the time of the preliminary announcement, it was merely acknowledged that extra particulars can be introduced “quickly,” whereas opponents of the plan, corresponding to Labor MP and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves additionally questioned Sunak’s priorities, calling it “hopeless.”

“The nation is dealing with a extreme value of dwelling disaster made worse by this chancellor’s selections. That is his precedence proper now. Hopeless,” she mentioned.

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