Welcome to BuyFromEU - A community dedicated to supporting European-made goods and services!
We also invite you to subscribe to:
Logo generated with mistral le chat Banner by Christian Lue on unsplash.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/19420830
Bye bye Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, and many others. They can go and play "America First". We'll have our own independent system by november 2025.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.html#timeline
@SrMono ehhh - no, it is unfortunately not.
"The current phase will last for two years, finishing at the end of 2025, at which point the Governing Council will decide whether to move to the next phase of preparations and, if so, define its scope and duration."
It's a pity that it is still so far off, because reading though the description, it seems to be intended as a very secure, very private way of paying digitally - the intention is to make payments directly from person to person, with no interactions with your bank.
"Cash-like" is the term they use. I could get behind that for sure.
Wero does it in France, Belgium and Germany if I am not mistaken
November 2025 is still quite a stretch and I’m sure as any good European project this will be postponed 😬
There were reports about "Digital Euro" a while back, before all that chaos ensued. If they would have started this now, I'd have said that November 25 is quite ambitious. Depending on the current state of this project and how long they've been working on it, it might not be too ambitious. Still, it's a huge task and there are many ways how this might get delayed.
Also having a payment network online is one step. Having businesses and banks adopt and implement it, is another. Even if this will start in November, I doubt it'll be a full fledged alternative on day one and it will still take some months to years to get it accepted (almost) everywhere. Also don't forget, that - if they want to implement Credit Cards - banks might need to issue new cards to their customers. I don't think, they'd swap them out all at once. More likely they'll swap them out, when you need a new card (validity date over, stolen, broken,...). This will slow down adoption. Issuing virtual cards on your phone that support this network might help for a faster adoption, though.
The European Central Bank has been working on this for many years. The current crisis is not the cause but may significantly speed up resources dedicated and raise urgency of the process.
It's been some time since I read thru the proposals of the European Central Bank. But a digital euro isn't just a replacement for a credit card system. It's a difference system altogether where transactions are directly cleared with the central bank (or a certified agent) online.
@SrMono owh noooooooo. This is actually bad for your privacy. Just saying.
Implying American companies are better for your privacy is quite absurd
@SrMono
I don't want digital euro, I don't want credit, I don't want more debt money!
It leads to capitalism leading to environmental and social crisis.
I want free money!
I don't want more money creation privileges. I don't want more control from banks on what we can/should do with our exchange tool.
I want us all to be in charge and controlling our exchange tool!
Let's all co-create and co-manage our own money!
Let's use #g1 , the first #monnaielibre.
https://monnaie-libre.fr/