I can't read bad news first thing in the morning.

The article is amazing!

As of late 2025, only three countries have fully launched a retail CBDC: the Bahamas (Sand Dollar), Jamaica (Jam-Dex), and Nigeria (eNaira).

China's digital yuan (e-CNY) remains the world's largest pilot, while India's e-rupee is the second-largest, both expanding use cases and offline functionality in 2025.

There's a notable shift in emphasis from consumer-focused retail pilots to wholesale CBDCs for interbank and cross-border settlements. Projects like mBridge (connecting China, Thailand, UAE, Hong Kong, and Saudi Arabia) are now operational and reducing transaction times from days to seconds.

Governments around the world want full control 🛂 ➡️ Dictatorship

- Stupid people will follow and do what their supreme leaders tell them to do. 🐑

- Intelligent people will learn how to use privacy FOSS and bitcoin 🧠

It's called natural selection.

But hopefully the more we move our time to Bitcoin the brighter will be the future for everyone. 💡 🌄

They cant move forward unless there is a major crack in the system that allows them to provide this solution, there is opposition in the US at state level even banning the possibility of the fed doing this. So they will most likely have to pull of some sort of covid 2.0 and apply everything they learned, free speech suppression, financial repression, and systemic mass failure of current framework geared toward financial reset..

Tokenisation of Gold Reserves without even mining them has begun?

Gold backed Stablecoins as next step