Reading all kind of CBDC propaganda and those who are clearly against CBDC I absolutely can't get something real from that stuff.
Every single feature/option/whatever of CBDC could be implemented using current bank card/account system without single problem. Everything, from any restrictions to programming buying power or whatever. Every single thing that somehow connected to CBDC in everything written about it and posed as threat/advantage by whatever side is a question of a few minutes scripting in bank computers over current card/account system.
So, what is the real point of pushing CBDC crap by TPTB? Money laundering? Creatiing a base for some other narrative unknown yet, like kind of cyber threat fearmongering? What else? Anybody?
but those are the problems. Technically it's a similar system to digital representation of cash now, but all the barriers to info flow to central banks will be removed - a free flow of transaction information. The real goal is to prevent people from possessing physical cash, from their account or from elsewhere, and paying it to someone for something without a record of that transaction - and now VAT paid on that specific transaction - no record of who paid and who received, where, when what etc. Right now, the cash disappears from some account and there is not trace of what happened to it. Smart phone would eliminate that.
For example - I have a certain amount of cash in my possession, obtained from various sources for various reasons - none of it was withdrawn from my own account, all was physically given to me. If they wanted to control how or where or on what I spent it, they couldn't - at least not until they cancel paper money as currency. But they can't cancel it until they introduce it's replacement - which is what they are doing with CBDC.
They could declare man a woman in a second signing some shitty law, but somehow doing something with sheeple bank accounts is a problem for them? Are you kidding me?
They already did it, and did it easily. During coronahoax in some places you was able to pay only with card. And they will easily do that again at much larger scale. Just sign a paper, and that's all. Then you could spend years and millions in courts, and even will be able to pay for that groceries in that shop in cash, but nobody will care, because sheeple will already forgot that they have such thing as cash earlier. They already forgot about cash, really and use bank smartphone apps, not even cards for payments,
Or, f.e. they could ramp up inflation and offer decent compensation to the money you have in your bank account, but not in cash. Who will still keep cash when you will need a bag of cash for a bottle of water or just a credit card with compensated money?
You could always go direct to the local farmer and buy some food with cash. Or buy from your neighbor who keeps chickens or a stock, or from some cash only simple market with no phone or wifi - I did it out of disgust when businesses would not take cash. Such markets became more popular during recent times just for such reasons.
To lock you into one area, they had deploy police and barriers - it was expensive, messy, unreliable. I was able to be nice with police to go where I wanted to go, or take a smaller road they had no resources to police. With CBDC it's a mouse click, and done - no way around it unless you bring a picnic and tent. But then CBDC is not the only front of attack - think of the English 15 minute city that tracks your car reg if you leave your area.
You even don't need cash for that if you have something useful for farmer.
Just like with card/bank account.