• JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml
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    The digital euro won’t be a crypto. It will compete with Visa and Mastercard (which are American).

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      It’s meant as a wallet and not a bank account. So more of a PayPal alternative.

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      Couldn’t happen too soon, Visa and Mastercard extract wealth with literally every purchase on their network

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        That doesn’t compete with those fully either lol, competes more with SEPA if you ask me

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        As far as I understand, Wero is just an alternative to Swish, which has been around for like 10 years. And that is definitely not an alternative to Visa/MasterCard.

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      if it adopts the Ethereum blockchain or a proof-of-work model it may prove just as harmful