Seems like every country is moving forward towards implementing CBDCs. CBDCs equal total financial control, right down to small transactions.
The Bank of International Settlements general manager Agustin Carstens stating boldly they will have "absolute technological control" over your personal spending under Central Bank Digital Currencies.
In other words, Carstens is introducing total-totalitarianism.
Central Bank Digital Currency
The Reserve Bank is actively researching central bank digital currency (CBDC) as a complement to existing forms of money.
The Reserve Bank currently issues two forms of money:
physical money in the form of banknotes, which can be used by households and businesses to make payments, and
digital money in the form of balances held in accounts that commercial banks and some other types of financial institutions can hold at the Reserve Bank to settle payment obligations between each other.
A CBDC would be a new digital form of money issued by the Reserve Bank. It could be designed for retail (or general purpose) use, which would be like a digital version of banknotes that is essentially universally accessible, or for wholesale use, where it is accessible only to a more limited range of wholesale market participants for use in wholesale payment and settlement systems.
A CBDC could potentially support a number of the Bank's policy objectives, including safeguarding public trust in money and promoting efficiency, safety, resilience and innovation in payment systems and financial market infrastructures.
Our research has been looking at various possible use cases, exploring the potential benefits, opportunities and challenges associated with CBDC, and examining how a CBDC could be designed and developed if a decision was ever taken to implement one. Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is one possible technology platform we have been exploring that could be used to implement a CBDC. We have been collaborating with external parties on this research and will continue to do so.
Central Bank Digital Currency
www.rba.gov.au