Cryptocurrency: War On Cash Endgame... It's Where Your Freedom Went

[grarpamp]

Those who allow the freedom of their financial voice to
be removed from the marketplace of speech, who give
away the ability to freely store and transact value P2P
in efficient secure forms, shall, along with their families
and friends, suffer life as slaves unto their brutal masters.
The War On Cash has been documented for decades,
and now even banks are starting to close their cash
windows worldwide. You would be well served to rise up
and take to the streets to end it, and along with it, the
Centralized Globalist Govt and Corp areas sources and
ideologies of power and control from which it stems.
Without Freedom of Finance, Movement, Speech, and
Privacy... you are doomed, and they are all being
removed from you in realtime by these powers.

Crypto does you no good when you keep agreeing
to sit on your ass and follow the orders of your masters.
Stop doing that.



The 'War On Cash' Endgame Is Here

https://off-guardian.org/2021/10/01/programmable-digital-currency-the-next-stage-of-the-new-normal/

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“Programmable Digital Currency”: The next stage of the new normal?

The war on cash’s endgame is here: money replaced by vouchers subject
to complete state control.

Building on the bitcoin model, central banks are planning to produce
their own “digital currencies”. Removing any and all remaining
privacy, granting total control over every transaction, even limiting
what ordinary people are allowed to spend their money on.

>From the moment bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies first emerged, sold
as an independent and alternative medium of exchange outside the
financial status quo, it was only a matter of time before the new
alternative would be absorbed, modified and redeployed in service of
the state.

Enter “Central Bank Digital Currencies”: the mainstream answer to bitcoin.

For those who have never heard of them, “Central Bank Digital
Currencies” (CBDCs) are exactly what they sound like, digitized
versions of the pound/dollar/euro etc. issued by central banks.

Like bitcoin (and other crypto), the CBDC would be entirely digital,
thus furthering the ongoing war on cash. However, unlike crypto, it
would not have any encryption preserving anonymity. In fact, it would
be totally the reverse, potentially ending the very idea of financial
privacy.

Now, you may not have heard much about the CBDC plans, lost as they
are in the tangle of the ongoing “pandemic”, but the campaign is
there, chugging along on the back pages for months now. There are
stories about it from both Reuters and the Financial Times just today.
It’s a long, slow con, but a con nonetheless.

The countries where the idea progressed the furthest are China and the
UK. The Chinese Digital Yuan has been in development since 2014, and
is subject to ongoing and widespread testing. The UK is nowhere near
that stage yet, but Chancellor Rishi Sunak is keenly pushing forward a
digital pound that the press are calling “Britcoin”.

Other countries, including New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and
Malaysia, are not far behind.

The US is also researching the idea, with Jerome Powell, head of
Federal Reserve, announcing the release of a detailed report on the
“digital dollar” in the near future.

The proposals for how these CBDCs might work should be enough to raise
red flags in even the most trusting of minds.

Most people wouldn’t like the idea of the government monitoring “all
spending in real-time”, but that’s not the worst it.

By far the most dangerous idea is that any future digital currency
should be “programmable”. Meaning the people issuing the money would
have the power to control how it is spent.

That’s not an interpretation or a “conspiracy theory”, just listen to
Agustin Carstens, head of the International Settlement Bank, speaking
earlier this year:

Here’s that quote again, with some emphasis added:

    The key difference [with a CBDC] is that the central bank would
have absolute control on the rules and regulations that will determine
the use of that expression of central bank liability, and the have the
technology to enforce that.”

…which tells you not only that they want and are seeking this power,
but how they justify it to themselves. They transform other people’s
money into an “expression of their liability”, and so consider it’s
only right that they control it.

An article in the Telegraph, back in June, was just as candid [our emphasis]:

    Digital cash could be programmed to ensure it is only spent on
essentials, or goods which an employer or Government deems to be
sensible

The article goes on to quote Tom Mutton, a director at the BoE:

    You could introduce programmability […] There could be some
socially beneficial outcomes from that, preventing activity which is
seen to be socially harmful in some way.

Governments and employers making sure the money they issue can only be
used on “sensible” things, and not be used in “socially harmful” ways?
It doesn’t take much imagination to see just how this system could
evolve and re-shape society into a truly dystopian nightmare.

In China the process is already beginning, with a trademarked lack of
subtlety. As they progress toward the release of their digital
currency, they are banning all cryptocurrencies to remove competition
and it’s already known the digital yuan will be programmable.

The West’s approach will probably be less direct, but no less
controlling for that.

Britcoin will likely be programmed in only “special circumstances”.
Starting, as the Telegraph says, with state benefits. They will be
flagged to be spent only on “essentials”. (Of course, if Universal
Basic Income is put in place, then it’s possible the majority of
people could end up on “state benefits”.)

It’s also not hard to see programmable money feeding into the “protect
the NHS narrative”, where people aren’t allowed to spend state money
on sugar, cigarettes or alcohol. Or people on organ waiting lists, or
diagnosed with certain conditions, have their wages and spending
controlled.

By and large, however, it is the nature of British tyranny to be
unofficial. So the UK government will make a big show of renouncing
their own power to program the money, thereby positively contrasting
themselves with China…but at the time will take no steps to prevent
large companies “programming” the wages they issue.

So, while the state controls the digital yuan in China, the digital
pound will be subject to corporate control and used to enforce the
unspoken state-corporate partnership that defines true fascism.

It will likely start in small, predictable ways designed to “limit
competition”. McDonald’s, for example, will make it impossible to
spend their wages at Burger King, and vice versa. Coke and Pepsi.
Starbucks and Costa. You get the idea.

We’ve witnessed the rise of cancel culture, the cultivated age of
identity politics, and virtue signalling. Well, imagine how
programmable currency fits into that. Companies could commit to
“combatting hate”, and stop their employees from donating money to
black-listed political parties, religious groups, charities or
individuals.

In the age of Covid we have seen how authors/actors/singers who step
out of line are subject to poisonous witch hunts, but imagine a world
where companies could “renounce those who spread misinformation”, by
making it impossible to spend wages they issue on
art/films/music/books by outspoken critics of the government.

Maybe companies will make it so that employees who aren’t vaccinated
have more limitations placed on their wages than vaccinated ones.
Maybe an unvaxxed paycheck can’t be spent at cinemas or nightclubs, to
“stop the spread of the virus”.

John Cunliffe, deputy director of the Bank of England, told the Telegraph:

    You could think of smart contracts in which the money would be
programmed to be released only if something happened.

So maybe employers will remove choice altogether, and make a negative
test and/or a vaccine booster a prerequisite for unlocking your wages.
That could be applied to all kinds of behaviours moving forward.

The World Economic Forum has a clear vision of the future where people
“own nothing and are happy”, combine that with a prolonged war on
homeownership, and you can see employers and governments issuing money
which can be spent on rent, but not on a mortgage.

Now imagine the nascent “Green New Deal”. Hard limits on how much
money you can spend on petrol, plastic, or meat.

Only X dollars on flights per year. Only Y pounds on beef. All for the
good of the planet.

Money will turn from an expression of independence into nothing but a
voucher system operated completely at the whim of corporate monoliths.

    The year is 2030.

    To reduce your CO2 footprint, your food purchase with digital cash
been declined because you went over your car mileage limit.

    Its all tracked with your digital ID.

    15 social credit score points have been deducted from your climate
change passport.
    — PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) September 29, 2021

All of this would have sounded like rampant paranoia just two years
ago, but would you honestly be surprised to see that suggestion in the
Guardian, these days?

A programmable digital currency would have, coded into it, the ability
to control our entire society. And it looks like that’s where The New
Normal is heading next.