The EU will launch the digital euro as a 100% European digital payments system to replace reliance on Visa, Mastercard, and Apple and Google Pay, with the European Central Bank issuing a digital form of cash. It will be built entirely in Europe, have zero transaction fees, instant payments, and strong privacy, giving the EU full control over its payments infrastructure.
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Isn’t this literally GNU Taler?!
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I have been asking for 25 years why every modern economic transaction has to involve letting enormous private credit card companies skim off a 3% cut
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Well, we will definitely need the digital € to be able to pass the paywall, behind which this article was posted 
