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Money whose use can be constrained or steered by authorities, allowing direct behavioral control through spending permissions and restrictions.
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programmable digital currency
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...mind. Well, you know, it could be a problem because digital currency is programmable. They can they can control your behavior by controlling how..."
Key Notes
Glossary
Digital money that authorities can condition or interrupt, including freezing accounts and disciplining people through the payments infrastructure. In Jiang's usage, digital money that can be tracked, restricted, and behaviorally conditioned by the state rather than merely transferred more efficiently.
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Jiang warns that programmable digital currency lets the government freeze accounts and punish disfavored behavior directly through the payments system.
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"...mind. Well, you know, it could be a problem because digital currency is programmable. They can they can control your behavior by controlling how..."
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"...living in China for a long time. The introduction of digital currency has made my life better. So much more convenient, right? Because now..."
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"...in the world, right? So that's, that's that. So with digital currency, you're giving me basically all your power to government because you've eliminated..."
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"more healthy. person. But at the end of the day, that destroys the social contract, right? That destroys all your individual agency that destroys..."
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