EU-Minister sind sich über die digitale Euro-Roadmap einverstanden-Finanzminister der Europäischen Union haben sich am Freitag auf eine Roadmap einig

You mean the same visa and mastercard that decide what you can buy or not based on their own opinions and screaming conservatives ? 

Yes! Fucking finally. Though it’s a bit sad, that this idea had to be originally raised by group of European companies. EU ministers don’t really seem to care about economy, as they themselves seem to only propose some stupid socialist bullshit, like subsidies or ai act.

I have very little trust that my government will be able to handle this responsibly.

It’s the EU version of censorship when they will debank people for selling NSFW art or games, or even games in general, for posting valid criticism, etc. Just the stuff Visa and Mastercard have a duopoly over, EU will do the same.

Of this actually results in a good and viable alternative to visa and mastercard it would be amazing. Those two companies are far too powerful and influential

A CBDC in the hands of EU bureaucrats that are trying to push agendas like Chat Control. And here you are celebrating it.

„So this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause.“

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we dont have to pretend just tax evaders are against this, there are valid criticisms.

Privacy is the biggest concern about it. Government has direct unequivocal access to all your transactions.

They can collect your spending data en masse, and feed it to AI models. With conventional credit cards, its very difficult to do so (not impossible though).

Also CBDC „is pegged“, but value can be changed through code for you, for a group of people or for everyone.

Third thing is that its centralized. You dont „own“ it, like you would crypto, since you just get a „note“ that you have x euros, you dont have actual euros.

CBDCs include “programmable money” features for example, restricting what it can be spent on, setting expiration dates, or freezing accounts for compliance reasons.

This means they can be deleted at will, since you are not the owner.

I thought Wero payment system is supposed to be the alternative for Visa and Mastercard?

This is the best thing to happen to Europe in a long time and people are already bitching. Incredible.

Sounds good giving the governments direct surveillance control and logging/archiving rights for every single transaction. So if you have social benefits and spend too much on stuff not vital to survival they can automatically adjust it and so on and so forth. Cannot see a way that could backfire at all /s

Great, love to see it!