I think anyone...ANYONE...conservative or Leftist, who thinks ANY aspect of a digital currency (no matter how innocuous) is a good idea needs to have their heads examined.
Financial freedom and Political freedom are inextricably intertwined. You cannot have one without the other.
And the point of digital currency is a pathway to tyranny.
I voiced this opinion right here on Free Republic, and I had someone tell me I am making a mountain out of a molehill, because if I use a credit card, I am already using a digital currency!
I actually had someone say that, right here on this forum.
The analogy is the difference between making a personal decision to drive one of these electric vehicles, and being FORCED to drive an electric vehicle.
Astonishing.
Almost all money is, and has been, digits in a computer for 30+ years.
IRL if a bank had a SQL error and did a + instead of a minute, nobody would really notice unless it was over a million.
Money is an illusion of wealth. It’s as real as angels dancing on a pinhead. It’s so funny to me that people will kill and do almost anything over a few bits in a computer as if it really matters.