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Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.caM to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 month ago

After US stablecoin laws: EU wants to hurry up with the digital euro

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After US stablecoin laws: EU wants to hurry up with the digital euro

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Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.caM to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 month ago
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The USA has quickly pushed through its law on stablecoins. Now EU officials feel under pressure to move forward with the digital euro project.
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    .

    • x00z@lemmy.world
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      It’s meant as a wallet and not a bank account. So more of a PayPal alternative.

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      Couldn’t happen too soon, Visa and Mastercard extract wealth with literally every purchase on their network

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      That’s Wero

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        That doesn’t compete with those fully either lol, competes more with SEPA if you ask me

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        As far as I understand, Wero is just an alternative to Swish, which has been around for like 10 years. And that is definitely not an alternative to Visa/MasterCard.

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      if it adopts the Ethereum blockchain or a proof-of-work model it may prove just as harmful

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    What a cancer site. Hate this “pay or give us your data” thing.

    • somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Block the prompt with uBO. Block all trackers while you’re at it.

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      • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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        I’d rather just not visit them which is what I do.

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    I really hope they don’t screw this one.

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    let’s all hop on the bubble right before it fuckin crashes. hooray

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    let’s do this right! can’t screw this one up. too important.

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    All cuz China is basically already doing this and about to replace the scammy international banking system?

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      That, and China uses it to monitor their people in one more way.

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    Bullshit no one needs

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    Isn’t immediate transactions coming to banks now, anyway? What’s the need for this?

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    you don’t have to do everything the us does eu

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      The digital euro project has been in the works for quite some time so it’s more us copying the eu.

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        and it was as stupid then as it is now

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