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by alephu5 1273 days ago
The EU are working on something like this, it's like USDC but backed and exchanged by the European Central Bank.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/digital_euro/html/index.en.ht...
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markus92 1273 days ago
Irrelevant but EU has SEPA Instant Payments which basically resolves GPs issues with bank transfers.
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omgomgomgomg 1273 days ago
Unfortunatelly, this is not really true.

You bear all the risk as the merchant, the customers can simply reverse a transaction, repeatedly, without providing a reason, for up to couple months.

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AlchemistCamp 1273 days ago
A surveillance coin that bureaucrats can seize without a trial or due process!

The EU may not be the first to make this.

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