technocritEuropean banks to launch euro stablecoin in bid to counter US dominance
Why? Is so dumb.
The market can stay irrational with various crypto currencies longer than you can stay solvent, so you fight irrationality with your own brand of irrationality.
BarbarianThis is even dumber when you consider we’re ~2 years away from the launch of the Digital Euro. As easy and fast to transfer as a cryptocoin with none of the drawbacks. No Blockchain nonsense, backed by banks, transactions can be cancelled and refunded just like any digital transaction, and standardized to all EU banks.
This just sounds like a regular bank transfer to another European bank…input recipient in your self-service online banking and press “transfer”…beep boop done.
Surveilence
There will be the exact same level of surveillance, it’s still just run by banks so there’s no difference there.
Not really. I was scammed for a few hundreds of euro’s last year. I knew the company, I knew the account but the bank was incapable of reacting because of ‘reasons’.
They know where the money went but they can’t follow where it got transferred to. So they can only follow one transaction and after that it’s gone. (Except when you get a court order)
That’s exactly the problem. “Reversible in theory” doesn’t mean much if banks can’t or won’t act fast. Without real-time intervention and enforcement, the protections are mostly on paper, by the time they move, the money’s already gone.👌
For the past 11years I only transact with Crypto and I feel very much comfortable because any mistake I make is traceable and also refundable with zero charge. Almost everyone here in US has adapted to Crypto. The bank is just a reflection of the bad government. 👎