2026-01-18 15:27:37

Central bank digital currencies won't eliminate criminal activity. What they actually do is hand authorities a powerful tool to classify anyone who disagrees with them as a criminal. The real threat isn't crime prevention—it's mission creep.

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NoStopLossNut

· 6h ago

CBDC is really just a sword for power, saying you're a bad person makes you a bad person, and freezing assets becomes as easy as playing around.

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MetaverseLandlord

· 6h ago

Speaking of which, CBDC is just a disguised form of surveillance; any claims of fighting crime are just an excuse.

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PumpStrategist

· 6h ago

Seeing this logic, I recall that when chips are highly concentrated, the discourse power is also concentrated, and the pattern is formed. The "compliance" tool in the hands of regulators is actually just an RSI indicator that can be adjusted at any time. When market sentiment indicators soar, they can be directly suppressed. Risk release? That's impossible, only one-way constraints.

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StableGenius

· 6h ago

nah this is where everyone gets it fundamentally wrong tbh. cbdcs aren't even about crime—that's just the cover story they feed normies. it's pure financial surveillance wrapped in regulatory language, and yeah, mission creep is like... the feature, not the bug

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YieldWhisperer

· 6h ago

Regulation is absolutely not about combating crime; essentially, it's about gaining control of the narrative. CBDC is even more outrageous, directly turning dissenters into "criminals"—brilliant.

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