• Sodis@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    The digital euro “would end the problem of banking crises,” which “wouldn’t happen with a safe asset, the digital euro,” Fernández Ordóñez added — meaning the bulk of banking regulations, and the risk of taxpayer bailouts, could be removed too.

    Yeah, that’s never going to happen.

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      11 months ago

      It is incredibly naive to think that people who came up with hundreds of way to exploit a physical currency couldn’t come up with variations of the same or entirely new ways to exploit a digital one…or just an opportunity to push their anti-regulation stance because they want to be among those people.