In America here, we're in this space where one of our founding fathers, Samuel Adams,

called the animating contest of freedom.

We're in this space now with our money system.

And we're trying to avoid, as Catherine Rosserman fits, put it, this further centralization

of this currency to a power grab or surveillance type currency in a digital form.

And we reported last year in September, 2022, that the White House, it was kind of the

starting gun here.

They really signal to the public that they're going to explore this now.

White House releases a press release, right?

House releases first ever comprehensive framework for responsible development of digital assets.

And sure enough, right on cue, the UK similar thing, this is from the Bank of England's

website.

And it tells you straight up on the website there, we are looking at the case for issuing

a digital pound.

This type of money is known as central bank digital currency, CBDC.

It would not replace cash yet.

Right.

We've heard that before.

Don't worry about it.

Exactly.

So still king for now.

So what we have now is as these banks are kind of consolidating power going to a top-up

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