qyron

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Don't have one. Can't.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to use a personal case, now.

I can get an instant transfer, within borders, two ways, in my EU corner:

a) I use account to account immediate transfer order, where I can pay anything from a few cents to a few euros, depending on bank

b) I can use a national subsystem, where phone numbers are used, and pay a few cents

But doing this, even within EU borders, is, to my knowledge, border line impossible, with current systems.

IBAN, BIC and SWIFT do exist but transfers through those channels can take days and be very expensive.

My country ordered all national banks, still in the very early eighties, to get their acts together, and find a way for people to access their accounts, pay services, receive and transfer money, regardless the bank they had their account. Thus it was created Multibanco, a service network, built, paid for and maintained by all banks working on my country.

The eEuro closely resembles this concept, in my understanding.

The eEuro becomes a parallel subsystem, vouched for, surpervised and controlled by and through legally binded institutions, without the need to force federalization of european bank systems.

The ECB issues eEuros, which you can exchange your conventional Euros for, through your bank account, but only use through the eEuro network. It's the ECB managing all those movements, not every single country (veilled federated banking), thus it can bypass a huge amount of beaurocracy.

I can imagine this system as a precursor to something a lot bigger, like a world unified payment system. Individual creators and professionals could greatly benefit from it, using it to directly receive payments and donations

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

Not in that sense. Oddballs that talk trash on the status quo. Yanis Varoufakus comes to mind.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

If was to become part of the diet of one, he'd change his views very quickly.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 months ago

Well, he is right on the mark in the first part: go vote and talk to two friends.

Go vote, damn it! You don't like how things are going, do something about!

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

That sounds familiar.

I heard stories of people that were sent to war in the sixties, by draft, and there was a practice of having new squads train with their commanding officers.

Many of those officers got a bullet to the back of the head, in the field.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

No need to dumb it down; you got the gist of it. But I'm going to do my worst to make my "explanation" as ridiculous as possible.

get bank account

get euro monies in said account

go to bank again

open linked account for digital euro monies

from bank app, convert euro monies into digital-euro monies

1 euro monie = 1 digital euro monie

send digital monies to anyone in Europe with no middle man, instantly; receive monies, too.

buy and sell with digital monies, in Europe, no assle

have digital Euro monies in linked account

want to buy breakfast with Euro monies

convert digital Euro monies to euro monies

1 digital euro monie = 1 euro monie

go to ATM, insert card, take euro monies out, get euro monies bill

go to cafe, get coffee and croissant, pay with euro monies

I laughed too many times writing that. I'm ridiculous and deserving of your scorn.

I'll see myself out.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 months ago (8 children)

I read the article.

Boiled down, it is essentially a direct exchange between physical (money in your bank account) currency and a fully digital counterpart, at a 1 to 1 ratio, that can be done both ways.

Unlike crypto, it is to be issued by a central bank and will have to be accessed through properly licensed bank entities or similar institutions.

This can work. I want to read the full rule book now.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Being proud and serious are very overrated traits, especially when it comes to a country and its government.

Let's see some goofy and aloof odd balls, the kind of people capable of tripping over their own feet yet do a proper job at managing a country.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

106%

It's a necrocracy. I'm going to risk the dead also vote, by representation.

100%

Full support for the leader. Dissention is not an option.

88%

The resemblance of a democracy is still to uphold. Very lightly. But...

50.9%

This is democracy and maths call the victor!

Do I have to add it?

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz -1 points 3 months ago

The dragon underneath is starting to stirr.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

I agree. It is possible to train the sense of smell. And it should be actively trained.

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