Something that occurs to me re these points

What if #bitcoin is the CBDC?

Consider if you buy bitcoin on a US exchange:

1. You buy bitcoin (with KYC)

2. Your bitcoin address is linked with your personal info

3. Your future spending of that bitcoin is visible on-chain

How is this BTC different than a CBDC?

What am I missing?

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I have wondered about this also. What if BTC is the CBDC? 🤔

Tbh BTC+KYC seems to have all the criteria when you look at the KYC framework on exchanges

Plus, if you look at the mining pools, there's only like 3 pools with > 50% of hashrate ....so eventually, that's only a few places to block transactions

Wow ok dude this is terrible shotgun marketing for Rigly….

Makes me a bit hesitant to try your service.

I'm just trying to understand what the criteria is of a CBDC versus BTC with KYC association

Feel free to try Rigly, I'll zap you some sats for the mining test drive

My criteria for cbdc is control of it by the central authority- not only lack of privacy.

Gotcha, makes sense

Was actually thinking similar thoughts this morning while considering whether or not to transfer the whole kyc stack to a new wallet through a coinjoin.

Like, what am I, 1 of 100 that cares about privacy? They already know that I bought it 🤷‍♂️

They can’t really get to it now, and they can’t really get to it if I coinjoin. Am I really gain anything?

- Bitcoin is still completely different from a cbdc because the government or whoever cares can’t stop you from using the KYC coins.

What are they gonna do? Say math and speech is illegal?

It hasn't happened yet but seems possible

can't stop transactions on-chain but could block at the fiat rails

That's an advantage - especially now more and more things can be brought directly with bitcoin.