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xmrk ₿ ⚡️
xmrk@nodestrich.com
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operator of lightning node xmrk (033878501f9a4ce97dba9a6bba4e540eca46cb129a322eb98ea1749ed18ab67735).
CBDC designers face an interesting dilemma: they want to make their funny money popular, but not too popular, otherwise banks could go bust. ECB itself claims that: "The intention is to incorporate limit and remuneration-based tools in the design of a digital euro to curb its use as a form of investment." (section 2.3 of https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/digital_euro/investigation/governance/shared/files/ecb.degov220929.en.pdf ). And per-user limits kill usability. (I imagine here a limit like "no user is allowed to hold more than X eur in CBDC.) Imagine a retail store begging customers: "please no more CBDC payments, we hit our limit." But ECB proposes to automatically send the excess to a linked bank account, they call it waterfall. So I am cautiously optimistic about the future.
Spun up a new relay at wss://nostr.xmrk.mooo.com . The machine is a hosted one with 512 MB RAM, and using nostr-relay written in python and sqlite db. But I do not expect much interest, so should be enough for now.