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> that would be a pretty great way to ruin that

Not really. It would be similar to tax rules—not really applicable to non-American depositors.



It _could_ be like that. But we’re very deep down slippery slope hypotheticals by this point.


A digital dollar is not down some rabbit hole of hypotheticals. The fed (amongst others) debate/study it. Published this a couple years ago:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-...


We’re not talking about a digital dollar so much as a government mandated spending program for all citizens or perhaps retail account owning individuals.


> we’re very deep down slippery slope hypotheticals by this point

Not really. We're talking about how the U.S. government treats local deposits at American banks. That's not really relevant to the dollar's international role.




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