CBDCs could be great for privacy, if they used Chaumian eCash, i.e. the tech underlying cashu which means the 'mint' (central bank) doesn't know who it issued a given token to
I mention this because the anti-CBDC folks need to improve their arguments. If they obsess only about physical cash, they look backwards and irrelevant
I've had only one in-person discussion about CBDCs, with someone who was an extreme conspiracist. They believed that "15 minute cities" were a conspiracy to require everybody to stay with 15 minutes of their home, and that CBDCs would be the tracking mechanism to enforce this. This conspiracy is funded by climate deniers I guess
Anyway, how do we build a sane movement around freedom, that is also tech-savvy?
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