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 NEW Article - AS CBDC pilots proliferate, a myriad of elite-gilded and blockchain-powered digital payment networks are vying for their technologies and payment systems to be incorporated in the developing digital currency infrastructures of tomorrow.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2023/12/investigative-reports/as-cbdcs-roll-out-elite-backed-digital-payment-systems-vie-to-build-the-global-payment-standard/
 
 Do you think the land grab amongst different elite factions will hamper the roll out of CBDCs? 
 Incentives of authoritarians and grifters go hand in hand 
 Like so many destroyed socialist countries before, the masses will celebrate the small stipend of money they get in exchange for losing the little freedom they have left.

One could say this is Darwinism in action, unfortunately it will most probably bring about an extremely repressive financial Dark Age.

#Bitcoin may well be our only hope to store our wealth.  If we won't be able to use it ourselves, then our descendants might be able to after this Financial Dark Age passes.


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 A parallel economy with #Bitcoin and #Lightning as the escape hatch.

We need more decentralization! 
 I hope more people realise that we need more decentralised payment options , but look at the masses they follow main narratives like sheep’s . 
 Imagine money needing someone to oversee its supply, accessibility, and where and who it needs to be distributed to. Imagine a world 20 years from now that need these special people with this special job.