‘Digital Dollar’ super creepy | Big Brother wants to track all spending [Part 1]

By Michael Snyder
www.endoftheamericandream.com

WASHINGTON, DC – Are you ready for the government to monitor what you buy and sell on a daily basis? Because that is what could happen if you start using the new “digital dollar” that they are now testing.

Of course using the new “digital dollar” would be voluntary at first, but what if it eventually becomes mandatory? The use of physical currency continues to decline year after year, and some governments in Europe have already taken radical measures to phase out the use of cash. Many among the elite consider digital currencies to be the key to a whole new era of strict governmental control over the way that we live our lives, and there would be so much potential for abuse.

On Nov. 15, an extremely ambitious 12-week test of the “digital dollar” was publicly announced. As you can see from this news snippet, some of the biggest companies in the financial world have signed up:

Global banking giants are starting a 12-week digital dollar pilot with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the participants announced on Tuesday. Citigroup Inc, HSBC Holdings Plc, Mastercard Inc and Wells Fargo & Co are among the financial companies participating in the experiment alongside the New York Fed’s innovation center, they said in a statement. The project, which is called the regulated liability network, will be conducted in a test environment and use simulated data, the New York Fed said.

When asked about his firm’s participation in the project, a Citigroup executive sounded enthusiastic:

“Programmable US dollars may be necessary to support new business models and provide a foundation to much-needed innovations in financial settlements and infrastructure,” Tony McLaughlin, managing director for emerging payments and business development at Citigroup’s treasury and trade solutions division, said in a statement. “Projects like this, that focus on the digitization of central bank money and individual bank deposits, could be expanded to take a broader view of 0the opportunity.”

This is something that the Federal Reserve has been working on for a long time.

Back in January, the Fed released a 40-page study on the possibility of a “digital dollar,” and they invited the public to comment:

View the 40-page Study

The paper said that a Central Bank Digital Dollar ‘could streamline cross-border payments and could further enshrine and preserve the dominance of the dollar’s international role, including as the world’s reserve currency.’

Obviously the Fed did not meet with too much resistance during comment stage, and so now they are moving on to fully testing the “digital dollar” that they have come up with.

The fact that they are going to spend an enormous amount of time, money and energy testing this new “digital dollar” strongly indicates that they already have plans to introduce it.

The “digital dollar” would be very similar to Bitcoin and other popular cryptocurrencies.

But instead of a decentralized system, the government would control the currency and would have the ability to track every single transaction.

And as Michael Maharrey of Schiff Gold has noted, there would even be the potential for the government to “turn off” the ability of certain individuals to make purchases…

Imagine if there was no cash. It would be impossible to hide even the smallest transaction from government eyes. Something as simple as your morning trip to Starbucks wouldn’t be a secret from government officials. As Bloomberg put it in an article published when China launched its digital yuan pilot program, digital currency “offers China’s authorities a degree of control never possible with physical money.”

Who wants government to have that much power over our lives?

Next week, in Part 2 of this report, some in Congress are pushing legislation to curtail the roll-out of digital dollars.