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Most people will have heard now about the plans to introduce Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) in countries around the world, including Australia. By March 2024, the central banks of 134 countries, accounting for 98 per cent of the world’s GDP, were said to be in various stages of evaluating the launch of a national digital currency. 

CBDCs are purported to be cryptocurrencies. But they are far from what true cryptocurrencies represent: the freedom to choose how to transfer value and decentralised technology. 

Are you aware of players, their organisations and agendas driving us toward a CBDC future? If not, start here

When you read these, remember that CBDC promoters will always highlight the benefits, such as convenience and cost-effectiveness. 

What they won’t discuss is that the retail iteration of a CBDC could see currency programmed by a central authority. This authority, if it chooses, could then remove spending choice, the ability to save or store wealth, move freely, and speak out against anything the issuing authority disagrees with and a free market. It could even become a ‘social credit system.’ 

Once you become familiar with the bigger picture, then ask yourself what knowledge, tools and decentralised assets might help you protect yourself. Assets like precious metals and true cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and other Layer 1 blockchains. 
 
CBDCs may be offer technological advancement, or enslavement. By the time we know, it may be too late to do anything. So now is the time to learn about true decentralised asset classes and get to know them as if your life depended on it. Read more here.