BrettPhillips on Nostr: I don’t see a true CBDC in the US right now, but I see everyone (mostly) uses ...
I don’t see a true CBDC in the US right now, but I see everyone (mostly) uses centralized, digital dollars through apps like Venmo, PayPal, X (soon), and the major credit card companies.
This has all the downsides of a government CBDC with none of the few upsides of it being run by public entities vs private.
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