We are looking to what extent we could overcome these legal barriers, but we are at a very early stage. There seems to be a certain change of tone in how you and your colleagues now speak about digital currencies. In the past some of your colleagues largely dismissed it as, for example, Tulip mania with no immediate consequences for the central bank.
What prompted this bigger sense of urgency that something needs to be done right now? As long as it was negligible it was not considered a priority, but since this hype accelerated at the end of last year it has moved higher up on the agenda.