[juliangmp]

>"Personal data would be fully protected. Banks, not even the ECB, would not see or be able to trace, people's personal details or data. Offline payments would offer a similar level of privacy as cash does today," Dombrovskis told reporters.

Yeah, lol no I'm not buying that. Maybe if the actual architecture and source code gets open sourced and people more knowledgeable than me audit it...

[tinus_hn]

Call me cynical but I don’t see why the EU would push this apart from attempts to snoop and control peoples expenses.

[WeylandYutani]

In my country already 80% of all transactions are electronic. I personally haven't used cash in ages. There's nothing to attempt we've been living this way for a long time and nothing bad has happened. Just don't vote for a Christian fascist party led by a narcissist moron.

[T0Bi]

Less dependency on Visa / Mastercard I'd guess.