[anthony_r]

This.

I don't understand how more people are not catching up to this simple fact that central bank "digital currencies" are nothing more than a by-pass of distributed private banking (brick and mortar + online banks). It's just moving more levers closer to central authorities.

[asah]

Well... digital currency = programmable money = big differences... for example, giving people money which must be spent by a certain date on certain types of goods or services.