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As the Bank of Canada prepares for a digital Canadian dollar, democratic concerns loom large
(theconversation.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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This is the first Iβve heard of plans for a digital currency in Canada. Do you have a link?
First I heard too, I found this from the Bank of Canada.
tl;dr Its not crypto and they don't have immediate plans to implement it, but they're exploring the idea and just completed a public consultation on it.
Digital form of cash in your wallet? Like a debit card linked checking account or a prepaid credit card (i.e. Koho)? Everything described seems to be exactly what we can already do since forever. LOL
I think the difference is you could use it somehow outside of a bank account, like with just a digital wallet? I'm no economist, but I don't see any tangible benefits to this either. Having a frictionless alternative to etransfers would be nice I guess, but not worth making major changes to our monetary structure.
It looks the same on the surface, however underneath the existing system has a lot of layers that were created over the history of the banking system that don't need to exist in a digital ledger system like this.
Yeah; this would replace the onion that is EMV with a straightforward digital ledger standard backed by the Bank of Canada.
Under such a system, physical cash could become NFTs of the digital equivalent (and not NFTs in the cryptobro sense).
This could make currency management much less expensive.
From the sounds of it your digital cash would not need to be stored in a bank account or anything like that, so banks won't have access to your money to invest in other things that make the bank money and potentially lose it all.
Wouldn't that mean there would be added fees, no insurance for loss, etc.?
Whatever it ends up being, they really need to make a very clear definition of what exactly this is, and how it differs from traditional banking.
There's no way the majority of the population, especially first generation immigrants to this country, would understand what the hell a "digital Canadian dollar" is.
I see a lot of opportunities for abusing people's naivety on this one.
This is the link OP provided