Should we fear CBDCs? In part II of our guide to the War on Cash, we look at Central Bank Digital Currencies and the risks and opportunities they entail.
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What is cash, why is it on the decline, why are governments complicit in getting rid of it, and why is there pushback against the 'War on Cash'? Get up to speed with our explainer.
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As Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilots proliferate, a myriad of elite-gilded and blockchain-powered digital payment networks are vying for their technologies and payment systems to be incorporated in the developing digital currency infrastructures of tomorrow. Their end game? A digital financial grid prime for abuse.
G20 leaders have agreed to a plan to eventually impose digital currencies and digital IDs on their populations, despite concerns that governments will use them to control people's spending and crush dissent.
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National identity cards are, as everyone should know, a terrible idea. But modern Digital ID, based on crypto block chain technology and protective of privacy, is a very different animal.
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Riley Waggaman The wait is over! The Bank of Russia’s centralized, programmable digital token officially received the State Duma’s blessing on Tuesday. Safe and convenient concepts such as “digital ruble platform”, “digital ruble platform participant”, as well as “digital ruble platform user” and “digital account (wallet)”, now have concrete definitions provided by pages and pages of legal …
This month marks the close of the UK government’s “consultation” on the planned digital pound. This is your chance to have your say on plans to introduce a Central Bank Digital Currency to the UK. According to the UK government’s website: The way we use money is changing. This Consultation Paper sets out our assessment …
In the Twenty-First Century we have all got used to living in a surveillance state. In a city, a town of any size, in many villages, on main roads, cameras watch us – private cameras as well as state cameras. Our money is tracked too. To some extent this is a good thing; if someone […]
The World Economic Forum’s annual meet-up kicks off tomorrow. Politicians, corporate giants, “philanthropists” and all manner of elite monstrosities gather for a weekend of telling each other how smart they are and making the world generally worse. But what’s on the menu this year? Well, here are the five main items up for discussion, according …
in spite of concerted attempts by the mainstream media and especially the White House to ignore it, the massive unrest, rebellion, in China, can no longer be ignored. Clearly the Chinese people have now had more than enough of these insane Covid lockdowns which are no longer about Covid, if they ever were about Covid. […]
