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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Not the way it should be, but cool I guess

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Presumably you're talking about CBDCs, but it's not what you claim. It's a state issued currency from a central bank and only some countries have adopted it, while others have rejected it. It is not applied across the board or used to transfer/exchange currencies in any way. A lot of them also do not even use distributed ledgers or blockchain. In the USA, some states have even banned the use of CBDCs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank_digital_currency

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

From the article:

Launched in March this year, Project Ensemble is the HKMA’s wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) project aimed at fostering the development of tokenization in Hong Kong.

The article also talks about how this is an experimental thing in Hong Kong. It's a testing environment, not a production case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There are a number of banks working on this. Not just testing but in production, now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

"Working on" implies pre-production, at least to my understanding.

Then again if game companies can do Early Access, why not banks?