Banks and the digital euro can “nicely co-exist” and there will always be a place for coins and notes. Those were the key talking points for European Central Bank official Daniel McLean on a visit to Dublin last week in the latest undertaking to bolster confidence in the ECB’s digital euro plans. Irishman McLean, who heads up one of the units developing the digital euro in Frankfurt, was speaking at the recent Blockchain Ireland Week. In “the digital euro, which is what we see as being the next version of our currency digitally in Europe, we do see a role…

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