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I'm really hyped for this but in typical EU fashion it's taking years.
Not to mention how long it will take for cardreaders & ATMs / cash machines to be updated to work with this.
I can see this taking a long time, so as long as they move the whole infrastructure forwards, together, then it will better than developing the "eumasterpayvisapalcard" and then thinking about the end devices...
Unfortunately they bought into this right around the bitcoin hype, so I expect the entire project to become a wasteful slog that nobody has any real use for, except for maybe gambling on exchanges, like most cryptocurrencies.
A digital euro that requires no banks or payment processors definitely has a use. It's all the benefits of cryptocurrency but with the backing of a central bank.
Exactly. Best of both worlds. We actually want a currency that can be manipulated by government. That's how they stabilise it. An unstable currency isn't much use. Block chain transfers is great because it means easy, secure transfers in the open. No gatekeepers like WorldPay.
It sure does! Except that's not what this will be. It's what cryptocurrency should be, and how digital money should work, but it's not that simple.
Payment processors don't just magically take fees, they also verify and register transactions; something that will still need to be done even with cryptocurrency.
When Steam implemented cryptocurrency, they used a third party to do it. When El Salvador adopted Bitcoin nation-wide, it used a system of payment processors for most payments. Payment processors exist because having your local bank integrate directly with the payment ecosystem is not practical.
I can wire transfer money to banks for free already. The reason my grocery store isn't letting me pay that way is because they don't want to integrate with the bank directly. Better to pay a decimal point of a percentage on the transaction than to deal with all that crap.
The promise of the digital euro is "now the banks can't screw you over", but that promise is made by the people regulating the banks. This is just a bank account with the ECB, but with a ton of overhead and false promises (like promising "privacy" in a permanent ledger and accounts tied to names, lol) on top.
Out of all the cryptocurrencies, I do think one led by the ECB would be the best one, but it's still a solution looking for a problem. Now, they've tied the very necessary removal of European dependence on American payment processing standards to this project. When the crypto-euro fails or doesn't get taken up, we're stuck with VISA/Mastercard for yet another decade.