Absolutely! Discussed this the other day in one of my law school classes when talking about CBDCs. We were discussing the "benefits," one of which being the programmability of money.

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I would have asked why does money need to be programmable?

Talked a lot about the ability to put limitations on what welfare disbursements could be spent on and prohibiting it from being used to avoid sanctions. Of course the glaringly obvious issue I saw was if that is possible, then making your money expire is possible, locking down your wallet is possible, etc. I did bring up the growing weaponization of the finance industry and how programmability can be used to unplug political dissidents and other draconian measures.