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Re:Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digit... by Nursie on Monday April 19, 2021 @02:25PM (#26866279)
The problem with that is that there doesn’t seem to be anything interesting going on, beyond speculative hyper-capitalism. All the problems crypto was going to solve were illusory, or crypto was not a useful tool in solving them. Instead we’ve had years and years of hype and bubbles and solution-looking-for-a-problem but nothing much of any practical value.

“Move fast and break things” now has a bad rap too in much of society - it turns out not everyone wants their things broken, and some of that stuff was useful. The world is not as in-love with the output of Silicon Valley startups as it used to be, having seen some of them play out.

Re:Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digit... by matheusmoreira on Monday April 19, 2021 @03:33PM (#26867002)
Monero is very close to the original cryptocurrency dream. Private, anonymous, fast transactions, low fees, mineable by CPUs, can be and actually is used as a currency.