[yownie]

I'd welcome it if it actually provided a benefit to end users but I'm highly doubtful the institutions involved can move at anything but the glacial pace they always seen to.

More concerning for me is the continual "push" by news narratives telling us how CBDC's will bring about a utopia.

[dalbasal]

i'm with you on the pessimism. I haven't quite experienced a continual "push" by news narratives.

I think this is likely just excitement by nerds within the establishment, just like there is outside of it, at all the crypto stuff going on.