By Vassos Angeletou In Athens, the board of directors of the European Central Bank will meet on October 26 in order to announce its crucial decisions, not only for the interest rates of the euro, but also for a historic project in the history of the Eurozone – the digital euro. It has been known… Continue reading From Athens, the...
  • Resethel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    1 year ago

    Depends. With a digital euro, you can safely stash away your money without having allowing private banks to make a profit out of it. Same goes with transactions. Firms like Visa or Mastercard won’t turn a profit out of it. Of course there are many disadvantages as well.

    • tal@kbin.social
      8·
      1 year ago

      With a digital euro, you can safely stash away your money without having allowing private banks to make a profit out of it.

      According to OP’s article, the ECB is specifically aiming to make the digital euro not viable for storing a bunch of money, so I don’t think that that’s a target use case.

      Sources with knowledge of the procedures explain to Capital.gr that the digital euro will take the form of a wallet that citizens will “load” with euros from their bank accounts. This means that the role of commercial banks is not canceled with the launch of the single digital currency, but they will still be an important part of the ecosystem.

      For this reason, it is being considered to introduce a ceiling on the liquidity that citizens will be able to maintain in digital euro, in the order of 2,000 or 3,000 euros per user. The goal is for the digital euro to be used purely as a means of exchange and not as a means of accumulating wealth.

      • Resethel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Indeed, I remembered when the ECB first talked about it (2-3years ago) and I read the article diagonally.

        But it still, most people could get rid of their cash bank account as most people earn less than 3k€net per month and just keep a saving account.

        All in all, I’d still argue it’s a not-so-bad initiative, especially for small businesses who pay a hefty fee per transactions