Consider it a preview of what is about to come.
Cuthbert Garcia cited a piece published on the Federal Reserve website last year. “It’s talking about programmable money,” she said, adding that she just recently learned about the concept. (Related: Australia to overhaul payments system with digital currency issued by central bank.)
“I, of course, have heard of digital currency. And tracking through digital currency has always been an issue and a concern of mine, because anyone with that much control over your currency, any entity that has that much control over your currency, I find that problematic. Because they can, of course, shut it down at any time.”
Programmable money involves a blockchain code, Cuthbert Garcia said, so it’s almost like a token system.
“You won’t be able to use your money just for anything. You will have to use that code, that programmable code, to buy certain things,” she explained.
“So, maybe, you only have 10 digital tokens to buy beef that week. And once you use those tokens, you can’t buy anymore. It’s a way to ration things. And so if the holder of the centralized currency, the comptroller of the central centralized currency, doesn’t want certain things to take place, then they’ll simply not create those tokens to buy those things. It’s kind of like a lock and key type thing.”
The article on the Federal Reserve website noted that “one facet of successful public blockchain systems that may provide some clarity is how they closely link digital value and programmability in a single system that only functions properly when both are present.”
It added: “Any ‘programmability’ offered for this money, whether internally to the entity maintaining the database or exposed to its customers via an application programming interface, involves another technology system built separately from that database and then connected in some fashion.”
“This is what we’re been talking about with the vaccine passport. This is what we’ve been talking about, for goodness sakes. I don’t know how much more clear this can be. And we still have people out there willingly using vaccine passports, completely missing the point,” Cuthbert Garcia said.
“Okay, this is not about proving your health medical injection status. This is about a centralized currency that will drastically change your ability to exchange goods and services and to move freely about the world. Please go learn about programmable currency.”
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