{"id":154993,"date":"2026-07-22T14:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154993"},"modified":"2026-07-22T14:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:16:39","slug":"the-digital-euro-surveillance-money-or-a-better-alternative-to-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154993","title":{"rendered":"The digital euro: Surveillance money, or a better alternative to cash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsProponents of the digital euro say its a better alternative to cash that\u2019s fully backed by the ECB. But critics argue it could provide the EU with too much power over its citizens.<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/what-is-the-digital-euro-all-you-need-to-know-about-europes-cbdc?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>Magazine<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsProponents of the digital euro say its a better alternative to cash that\u2019s fully backed by the ECB. But critics argue it could provide the EU with too&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}