• ranzispa@mander.xyz
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    4 months ago

    i thought it was the EU to issue and back Euro, not a private bank. Here I’m saying backing the Euro as defining it money and having police that will enforce its validity.

    This is a way to track you

    How is this worse than a regular bank account, which you’re required to have anyway?

    Bank decides who can buy what and then

    Banks could do that already, they do not. Really doubt that is going to happen as it would strongly undermine the utility of Euro.

    Do you have reasons to believe this is going to happen or this is just wishful thinking?

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        4 months ago

        What is in the documentation? I skimmed over and thy don’t seem to talk about stopping payments or rationing ones money. They do seem to focus quite a bit on privacy and how to protect user data.

        Who is the YouTube video by and why should I care to watch it?

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          4 months ago

          She is a former BIS banker and explains the core concepts in simple terms.

          Bro it’s a two minute long fucking video if you can’t be bothered enough to watch that I can’t help you.

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            4 months ago

            I watched your 2 minutes video. It is very sensationalistic and doesn’t really explain anything about how the system works or why it could be problematic.

            The speaker is American, not European.

            She doesn’t address the fact that such a system is already in place and the norm for everyone. As of now it is not a 3 party system but a 4 party system: the two persons involved in the transaction and the two private banks handling the transactions. I don’t get how taking out the private banks and having a public institution doing the handling would make the system worse.

            It would indeed be worse for private banks, which I guess is why a bank employee may be opposed to it.

            Moreover, a video by a person who supported Donald Trump in the elections and opposed COVID lockdown is not very reassuring.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Austin_Fitts