Ever wanted to hear CBDC advocates defend CBDC in their own words? \ stacker news ~bitcoin

Ever wanted to hear CBDC advocates defend CBDC in their own words?

57 sats \ 4 comments \ @kilianbuhn 26 Mar 2023 bitcoin

Here is a podcast episode from Bloomberg:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-23/former-biden-nominee-saule-omarova-on-the-case-for-public-bank-accounts?srnd=oddlots

I'm not 🙅🏻‍♀️ a CBDC defender. But I do think that in ANY discussion it is important to actually hear what the other side is actually saying.

If we don't we'll end up arguing against a strawman 😐 and never convince anybody of anything.

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Jorj_X_McKie 26 Mar 2023

Good point. That link is paywalled tho…

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kilianbuhn OP 26 Mar 2023

The accompaning article is paywalled, the podcast is free and everywhere 😌😌

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @quark 26 Mar 2023

I've heard it will be possible to buy bitcoin or crypto with CBDCs. Is that true? I find it hard to believe. The fact that they use blockchain technology doesn't mean it can be used to transfer CBDC to a bitcoin wallet or any other wallet.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kilianbuhn OP 26 Mar 2023

The fact that they use blockchain technology

This is exactly why I posted this here 😂😂 Nobody, literally nobody who is seriously pro CBDC is thinking about blockchain. It's a strawman made up by Bitcoiners.

There are so many fundamentally good arguments against CBDCs. Why are we choosing to talk about made up stuff instead?