They already have all the USDs they use currently so acquiring BTC wouldn't be a huge problem. And the potential of it growing in value is a benefit not a threat. CBDC can be controlled from the minting perspective, but is essentially valueless if nobody outside of the circle would pay a dime for it. Remember this is not individuals beings forced to use whatever the government shoves down their throats. It is countries clearing transactions between each other and they know the tricks, they run the central banks.

In this case, if BRICs implements a CBDC, it's not going to matter what it is denominated in, since it's going to just be for clearing payments, as a running ledger. The rest of the nefarious stuff will be implemented later after the transactions at the international level have been proven out. IMO.

Yeah. "anything but $ and BTC."