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[โ€“] brainrein@feddit.de 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Correct me if Iโ€™m wrong: this digital currency would end the need of doing business with a bank, it would simply make banks obsolete?

[โ€“] ebikefolder@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like it. But banks are my least concern. It needs a lot of technology (internet, smartphone). And most of all: it's traceable by nature!

I still prefer cash. Simple pieces of paper or metal which simply are. I can keep them in a drawer or my pocket, and I can simply hand them to somebody else without any additional high tech, or 3rd party snooping. Life can be so easy!

[โ€“] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Imo, due to them completely ignoring the first and biggest feature request of the public: privacy, it makes it almost completely useless to me. I prefer cash as well, but we also need a digital cash alternative, and that's where privacy focused crypto is a better alternative for me

[โ€“] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Only partially, because there'd be a limit to how many digital euros are available and how much you can have or something like that.