{"id":8964,"date":"2026-05-20T02:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/?p=8964"},"modified":"2026-05-20T03:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:00:36","slug":"digital-shekel-cbdc-survey-finds-considerable-user-interest-especially-if-remunerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/digital-shekel-cbdc-survey-finds-considerable-user-interest-especially-if-remunerated\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital shekel CBDC\u00a0survey finds considerable user interest, especially if remunerated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8964\" class=\"elementor elementor-8964\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-624d676d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"624d676d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5b01699e\" data-id=\"5b01699e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-309872b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"309872b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.7.2 - 21-08-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/acudc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/News0521.03.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acudc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/News0521.03.png 750w, https:\/\/acudc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/News0521.03-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/acudc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/News0521.03-18x12.png 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d5cd177 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7d5cd177\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.7.2 - 21-08-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Image by Ledger Insights<\/p><p>The Bank of Israel conducted a thoughtful survey process for its Digital Shekel central bank digital currency (CBDC). It found that 51% of respondents had either a high or intermediate interest in the digital currency. Some of the responses received contrasted with other CBDC surveys. For example, privacy did not rank as particularly important, and interest in the CBDC increased with age.<\/p><p>That\u2019s not to say the current Israeli central bank design doesn\u2019t consider privacy. If introduced, the digital shekel would be accessed via payment providers, but the holdings would be directly with the central bank. However, the central bank would not have access to personal information.<\/p><p>The survey asked potential users to rank their interest on a scale of 1 to 10. Hence, the 51% figure is those who scored a six or above. We noted that the largest figures were in the extremes. Almost 21% of people gave it a ten, while 16% gave a score of one.<\/p><p>Retrieved from:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ledgerinsights.com\/digital-shekel-cbdc-survey-finds-considerable-user-interest-especially-if-remunerated\/\"><u>https:\/\/www.ledgerinsights.com\/digital-shekel-cbdc-survey-finds-considerable-user-interest-especially-if-remunerated\/<\/u><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by Ledger Insights The Bank of Israel conducted a thoughtful survey process for its Digital Shekel central bank digital currency (CBDC). It found that 51% of respondents had either a high or intermediate interest in the digital currency. Some of the responses received contrasted with other CBDC surveys. For example, privacy did not rank &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/digital-shekel-cbdc-survey-finds-considerable-user-interest-especially-if-remunerated\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Digital shekel CBDC\u00a0survey finds considerable user interest, especially if remunerated<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8964"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8968,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964\/revisions\/8968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}