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    Cryptocurrencies,  Regulation

    Rationing Privacy: ECB suggests digital currency ‘anonymity vouchers’

    An EU-issued central bank digital currency could provide an allowance of tokens good for keeping Big Brother from looking at your spending

    Planning to score some cocaine before meeting your girlfriend at a hotel? Neither the cops nor your wife will be any the wiser if you use some of the “anonymity vouchers” Europe’s central bank just proposed building into an e-euro. It’s kind of like trying to sneak across a room unseen by screaming, “nobody look at me!”