The EU going to make its own digital payments network - awesome stuff, australia should do the same so I don't have to give like 3% of everything I earn as a sole trader to Stripe/Visa/Mastercard. I'd rather give 0.5% to the RBA, or even better, make it "free" and genuine public infrastructure like a road as a way to put more money in the wider economy doing more productive things rather than in payment processor pockets)
https://www.independent.ie/business/digital-euro-what-it-is-and-how-we-will-use-the-new-form-of-cash/a165973061.html
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npub1c7…vfvch
2025-12-29 22:27:51 UTC
Author Public Key
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2025-12-29 22:27:51 UTCEvent JSON
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