With the current state of market trust what will incentivize the average person to use bitcoin over a CBDC?
Since banks can control supply they can use inflation and other mechanisms to encourage spending. Bitcoin on the other hand requires additional layers to handle even the current network traffic and lacks incentive for day to day transaction use.
The emergence of CBDC will not stop people from using bitcoin, this is because CBDC as we all know is no different from our traditional fiat currency, the only difference is that CBDC is the digitalized form of it,
- CBDC is still prone to centralized control like it is with our normal physical fiat currency
- CBDC is still prone to inflation, which can lead to loss of purchasing power, like it currently is with our physical fiat currency.
- CBDC can be frozen right there in your wallet by the Federal government or central banks they controls it, without your consent or permission, like it is with our physical fiat currency.
- with CBDC, your every transaction is monitored, you have no financial privacy of any kind because at all time, the central bank know how much you have in your wallet.
- with CBDC, when you send money to other parties, your identity is known to the central Banks, and so is the identity of whom ever you send money to.
- with CBDC, you can be denied access to your money any time and day, and there is nothing you can do about it if they refuse to grant you access to your money, who are you going to report to?.
But Bitcoin, Is the direct opposite of all that CBDC represent and stand for,
- Decentralized is bitcoin,
- Freedom is bitcoin,
- Privacy is bitcoin..
What more can one possibly ask for? Bitcoin has provided us with all that we need to live our lives free from other people controlling our finances lives, the ball is now in your court to either accept or reject.
Very good words, but if you read a little analytics and see what people and large banks made it so that bitcoin was traded on all major world exchanges and became very famous, it becomes clear that the same people are trying to participate in the launch of CBDC. Given the necessary situation in the world, these people can very quickly ban bitcoin mining and ban it on all exchanges. So far, such a situation has not occurred, but this scenario is possible.