c/buyeuropean · by Sunshine@piefed.ca · 1yAfter US stablecoin laws: EU wants to hurry up with the digital euro https://www.heise.de/en/news/After-US-stablecoin-laws-EU-wants-to-hurry-up-with-the-digital-euro-10590286.html58 points · 21 comments · view on lemmy.world
21 Comments
JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml · 43 pts · 1y
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x00z@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
It's meant as a wallet and not a bank account. So more of a PayPal alternative.
JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
makyo@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Couldn't happen too soon, Visa and Mastercard extract wealth with literally every purchase on their network
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
That's Wero
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
That doesn't compete with those fully either lol, competes more with SEPA if you ask me
DreasNil@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 1y
As far as I understand, Wero is just an alternative to Swish, which has been around for like 10 years. And that is definitely not an alternative to Visa/MasterCard.
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 1y
if it adopts the Ethereum blockchain or a proof-of-work model it may prove just as harmful
rikudou@lemmings.world · 17 pts · 1y
What a cancer site. Hate this "pay or give us your data" thing.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y
rikudou@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 1y
I'd rather just not visit them which is what I do.
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
Block the prompt with uBO. Block all trackers while you're at it.
Mihies@programming.dev · 14 pts · 1y
I really hope they don't screw this one.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
let's all hop on the bubble right before it fuckin crashes. hooray
Nico_198X@europe.pub · 8 pts · 1y
let's do this right! can't screw this one up. too important.
transfluxus@leminal.space · 4 pts · 1y
All cuz China is basically already doing this and about to replace the scammy international banking system?
ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
That, and China uses it to monitor their people in one more way.
Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
Bullshit no one needs
Randelung@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
Isn't immediate transactions coming to banks now, anyway? What's the need for this?
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · -9 pts · 1y
you don't have to do everything the us does eu
FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi · 21 pts · 1y
The digital euro project has been in the works for quite some time so it's more us copying the eu.
JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 1y
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · -9 pts · 1y
and it was as stupid then as it is now
JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y