Are CBDC's digital enslavement currencies

in hive-175254 •  2 years ago  (edited)

Central bank digital currency (CBDC) is a digital currency backed by a country's government they are considered legal tender for local and international transactions, the quest for a cashless policy system to provide widely distributed financial services for local and Urban users to have accessibility to a robust finance banking system is one of the aims behind the idea of CBDCs, Central banks around the world are unveiling digital currencies that will be used to boost business interaction between users in different countries.

CBDCs other aims are to

  • Improving user's banking experience.

  • Simplifying monetary policy.

  • Be a centralized accepted legal tender digital currency backed by governments.

  • Resilient against cybercrime.

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What's happening behind the scene

With cryptocurrencies continuing to thrive despite unfavorable regulatory policies limiting enormous adoption of users diving into the crypto space due to fear of uncertainty and doubt about crypto regulations, CBDCs are introduced to compete with decentralized currencies they are the opposite of what decentralization is built on.

Privacy problem

CBDCS; as cool as this digital currency are, they will have monopoly over users transactions, lack of privacy in transaction will be a limitations around this centralized currency, unlike decentralized currencies that gives users anonymity CBDCS offers quite the opposite to users.

Circulation problem

Bitcoin will have a capped 21 million supply this will be a hedge against inflation, CBDCS will be like the normal fiat cash that has unlimited supply which will only increase circulation of fiat currencies in general it's does not provide solution for current inflation problem today.

Introducing a centralized digital payment system that will easy users means of interacting with local banks is a good initiative, only problem here is what are the core motives behind CBDCs are they here to limit the adoption of decentralized currencies or they will they be the real cryptocurrencies killer?

Seems we will still be in the same old circle with CBDCS around there's no guarantee we will having our assets to ourselves without been monitored on every penny is spent.

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@tipu curate

In recent months there is a boom in countries where central banks are introducing digital currencies, this may be positive but I have my doubts. Thanks @mccoy02 for sharing this kind of content.

Thanks for stopping by, CBDCs aren't so bad as they seem they have their good and bad sides.

CDBC is the digital version of Fiat currency that will be legal tender and carry the same value as the physical currency. Because couple of countries are already working on this project and few are very close to launch it soon so people will have this option available for them. Asphalt I am aware then it will be optional for anyone to choose and hopefully this will make our life easier

From the look of it CBDCs will make life easier when it comes to having network transaction amongst users let's hope things work out perfectly.

I do not know more about it but I am going through some of the articles to understand more about this digital currency which is another side of Fiat currency. I even see that India is planning to launch it soon but as of now it is not Crypto friendly I would say. Nice post

Sure, CBDCs will compete with decentralized currencies, am not sure it will be this easy for crypto space but we will come out strong in the end.