> Both Digital Euro and GNU Taler have the psychological burden that you have to exchange "real money" for some kind of digital "monopoly money"
Isn't the idea behind the digital euro the exact opposite? That the money you see on your conventional bank account is famously not real (as the bank goes bankrupt if everyone tries to withdraw), while the money you have in the form of digital euro is real money, the way cash is?
Isn't the idea behind the digital euro the exact opposite? That the money you see on your conventional bank account is famously not real (as the bank goes bankrupt if everyone tries to withdraw), while the money you have in the form of digital euro is real money, the way cash is?