Quote from: cryptosize on November 28, 2023, 12:48:31 PM

You really think people will be so enthusiastic to abandon cash in favor of CBDC, social credit score, carbon credits, 15-min cities? Roll Eyes

Only a gullible person would believe that... I think Bitcoiners can do better than that. Cool

So I have dismantled the garbage argument that was a pure conspiracy and you come back to me with the adjective "gullible". Read again and see to whom you have to apply the adjective.

Quote from: DooMAD on November 28, 2023, 01:37:26 PM

I doubt anyone here is entertaining that notion, but it's the kind of thing the bureaucrats obsess over.

Yes, well, the concern for privacy that I see on the forum I don't see on the street in my day to day life where almost nobody pays with cash anymore. From there to enthusiastically using CBDCs is a step.

Another curious thing is that CBDCs indeed eliminate the need for conventional banks in the same way that a combine harvester eliminates the need for human hand harvesters. But it seems the bureaucrats don't want that part of progress, or at least they don't want it to happen too fast.

Quote from: DooMAD on November 28, 2023, 01:37:26 PM

The masses have a distinct knack for acting against their own self-interests when given the opportunity, so it won't be as easy as it might sound to convince them that CBDCs are very bad for them. You'd be surprised at how quickly some might embrace this mass-surveillance foolishness.

I am starting to see some resistance to CBDCs from non-Bitcoin environments, but minimal. I'm pessimistic on the subject. There have been countries like Venezuela and Nigeria where the launch of CBDCs has been a failure but I think in other parts of the world is going to be different.