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?
Why did DARPA create the "internet" when they could already achieve what they want with telegraph/phone lines + satellite comms?
You're only looking at the foundation, not what could be built upon it. And what could be built upon it is hard for us to imagine, and how it simplifies things on their end. The foundation is, of course, going to be at parity with the current tech.
We do this in the software world: rewrite things to make things easier to manage while the first version of the rewritten software is just at parity with the legacy one.
The task was completely different. IP protocol is basically different from what is used for phone lines and satcom. Basic principles and achieved results are different. IP add completely new properties and features that are impossible to implement over phone lines with their SS7 or satcoms,
Name me a single well-known software project that was rewritten from scratch and things become easier to manage.
All decent projects I know are polished and enhanced old code. Some did not changed a lot for decades, and all attempts to rewrite them in "modern language" or "to make easier to manage" by some stupid newfags failed completely.
What?
You realize the internet has been serviced for the longest time by phone lines?
Do you understand difference between routed packet data transmission concept and analogue point-to-point connections concept?
Phone line was used just for connecting of computer to internet, not as internet itself and had nothing to do with all that digital nature of IP. Phone line is just a media, like Ethernet cable or fiber, to connect computer to network, not network itself.
Phone system use completely different protocol - SS7 designed to make a direct connection between two users via different stations. Unlike Internet Protocol it was not designed and is not able to provide access to whole network simultaneously to end user.
You can have conference calls on a phone line.