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Re:10 Reasons to Fight Cashless Contagion by coding_unit_1 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @12:10PM (#38100338)
This is already in progress, at least in the UK https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/the-digital-pound
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Re:10 Reasons to Fight Cashless Contagion by aleph_minus_one on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @12:17PM (#38100451)
> This is already in progress, at least in the UK https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/the-digital-pound

Does this enable completely anonymous payments, or is this another step towards more surveillance?

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Re:10 Reasons to Fight Cashless Contagion by CommanderData on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @07:52PM (#38107056)
> anonymous payments

Surveillance most definitely will be a feature. We are talking about the UK government here.

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