Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden, said it had appointed bitcoin skeptic and current head of the national financial regulator Erik Thedéen as its new governor on Friday.
Thedéen, director-general of Sweden’s Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA), replaces ស្ទីហ្វិនអ៊ីលវេស, who has led the bank since 2006.
Former Stockholm Stock Exchange CEO set for six-year term
The former Ministry of Finance official and CEO of the Stockholm Stock Exchange will take up his position on January 1 and take part in the monetary policy meeting in February 2023. Thedéen will serve a six-year term.
“His (Thedéen) experience in managing financial authorities and organizations makes him well suited to become the new Governor of the Riksbank,” the central bank’s General Council said in a សេចក្តីថ្លែងការណ៍.
Thedéen’s appointment has been met with skepticism within the crypto industry.
Eric Wall, a Stockholm-based crypto analyst, and trader tweeted that the new governor’s appointment could not have come at a “worse” time when markets are reeling from a slew of bad news. Wall has previously criticized Thedéen as “ignorant”.
Thedéen proposes Europe-wide bitcoin mining ban
As vice-chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (EMSA), Thedéen called for a bloc-wide ban on “proof of work” ការជីកយករ៉ែ cryptocurrency ។, saying the industry’s energy usage was becoming a “national issue” in his homeland.
"Bitcoin is now a national issue for Sweden because of the amount of renewable energy devoted to mining,” Thedéen បានប្រាប់ the Financial Times earlier this year. “It would be an irony if the wind power generated on Sweden’s long coastline would be devoted to Bitcoin mining.”
Bitcoin accounts for 0.53% of the world’s electricity, នេះបើយោងតាម to figures from the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index.
Bitcoin is created via a system known as “Proof-of-Work” (PoW), a decentralized consensus mechanism that rewards a network of supercomputers, or miners, to validate transactions on the blockchain.
However, some academics and economists have criticized the process, saying it consumes too much electricity while fueling climate change. Ethereum, the second-largest crypto-asset which also uses PoW, is now ការផ្លាស់ប្តូរ to a more energy-friendly ភស្តុតាងនៃប្រាក់ភ្នាល់ (ព។ ស។ )
in November last year, Erik Thedéen, the incoming Riksbank governor, said that the energy consumption of Bitcoin mining in Sweden soared by “several hundred percent” during the five months to August 2021.
A few months later, speaking to the Financial Times, the Swedish regulator explained that he was not calling for a blanket ban on crypto, but rather a “discussion about shifting the industry to a more efficient technology”.
“The solution is to ban proof of work,” he said at the time.
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Source: https://beincrypto.com/sweden-names-bitcoin-skeptic-erik-thedeen-as-new-central-bank-governor/