Perhaps another stupid/newb question but: A CBDC basically demolishes the use case of stablecoins, right? I understand that current Trump policy has buoyed people's hopes of throwing CBDCs into the ash heap of history, but highly contentious and partisan-aligned policies are not very, uh, stable nowadays. I can easily see this seesawing between administrations. And in the event of a financial crisis? Forget about it. I think the opening for monetary innovation in that event would put CBDCs squarely back on the table.

CBDCs are offensive weapon NUMBER ONE of a modern totalitarian state. More of a threat than centralized AI and advanced facial recognition combined. 

They represent total surveillance and control. So I’m not really sure why people think they could be “neat” or whatever based on like speeding up financial processing or whatever.