Governments Can Program CBDC to Restrict Undesirable Purchases: WEF ‘Summer Davos’ in China

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Having the government control or restrict your purchases is a living hell.

via sociable.co:

Governments can program Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) with expiry dates and to restrict “undesirable” purchases, according to a discussion at the World Economic Forum (WEF) “Summer Davos” meeting in China.

Today at the WEF’s 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, aka “Summer Davos,” in Tianjing, China, Cornell University professor Eswar Prasad said that “we are at the cusp of physical currency essentially disappearing,” and that programmable CBDCs could take us to either a better or much darker place.

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“You could have a potentially […] darker world where the government decides that units of central bank money can be used to purchase some things, but not other things that it deems less desirable like say ammunition, or drugs, or pornography, or something of the sort“

Eswar Prasad, WEF Annual Meeting of the New Champions, June 2023

 

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