CBDCs are a double-edged sword. While they promise efficiency and financial inclusion, they also come with risks like surveillance and centralized control. Ripple's push for CBDCs highlights this paradox—crypto was meant to decentralize power, yet this feels like a step toward more centralization.

Bitcoin, despite its flaws, stays true to decentralization, unlike the controlled nature of CBDCs. The focus should be on balancing innovation with protecting individual freedom, not trading one form of control for another.