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Cashlessness and 1984
Published 3 years, 7 months ago
Description
The government of Belgium is in the process of ordering small businesses to
accept credit cards. In Sweden more and more cashless transactions are
occurring. The European Central Bank as well as the government of the
United States is working on developing Central Bank Digital Currencies
(CBDCs). Could this be used for '1984' type monitoring? Is something like
this needed for '666' …