Think They Won't Push the Digital Dollar? They're Already Starting the Digital Euro!
When Dan Bongino and Glenn Beck talk about these Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) on their shows, they are NOT just blowing smoke up your backsides. This is legit happening all around the world. Case in point, Reclaim the Net (great site, BTW), just published this article yesterday about Amazon helping the Europeans develop their own CBDC. They claim that it's just going to be an optional "alternative" to the normal Euro (just another way to pay), but you and I both know that is a bunch of BS!
It will be optional right up until they decide one day that it is no longer optional and they make a law banning physical currency. Ukraine, Canada, China, the EU, multiple other countries and as I pointed out our own Treasury Department at the behest of the White House are either looking into CBDCs or have already started or even finished rolling them out.
This is not a conspiracy theory. They want to get rid of your cash. They want to track and even control what you can buy. Check out this article:
Big Tech giant Amazon is among the five companies selected by the European Central Bank (ECB) to assist in developing the user interfaces for the digital euro.
The ECB officially began investigating a digital euro, which will be a central bank digital currency, last September. At the time, it said the investigation phase would last two years.
In February, ECB President Christine Lagarde said that the digital euro would complement cash, not replace it.
“A digital euro would give you an additional choice about how to pay and make it easier to do so, contributing to accessibility and inclusion,” she said.
On Friday, the ECB announced it was collaborating with five companies, which were selected from a pool of 54 companies, to “develop potential user interfaces,” for an ECB-backed digital currency.
“The aim of this prototyping exercise is to test how well the technology behind a digital euro integrates with prototypes developed by companies,” the ECB explained.
Each of the companies selected will work with the ECB, focusing on a specific potential user interface of a digital euro. Amazon was assigned e-commerce payments, Nexi and EPI will focus on point-of-sale payments, and Worldline and Caixabank were assigned peer-to-peer online payments.
The ECB explained that, “the prototyping exercise is an important element in the ongoing two-year investigation phase of the digital euro project. It is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2023 when the ECB will also publish its findings.”
“Simulated transactions will be initiated using the front-end prototypes developed by the five companies and processed through the Eurosystem’s interface and back-end infrastructure,” the ECB said. “There are no plans to re-use the prototypes in the subsequent phases of the digital euro project.”
https://reclaimthenet.org/amazon-to-assist-the-eu-with-a-digital-euro-trial/
