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by jcfhchcjxhx 1296 days ago
brazil, india, angola, china... they are all pushing a central bank owned database for even informal transactions... all the way down to buying candy at a red ligth.

no fees and instant payments are the carot (and then they add daily limits when criminals start to kidnap people to transfer money). But the end game is a stasis wetdream of state control over citzen relations.