Is US Fed warming to idea of digital currency?

From asiatimes.com

A member of the United States Federal Reserve’s board of governors has signaled that the institution is more open to the idea of central bank digital currency than previously. Lael Brainard – who chairs several Fed committees – made her remarks during a speech at a symposium on the future of payments at the Stanford Graduate School of Business on February 5, Cointelegraph reported. In her speech, Brainhard said the Fed was “conducting research and experimentation related to distributed ledger technologies and their potential use case for digital currencies, including the potential for a CBDC [central bank ... (full story)