Nicholas: Once the system is in place you cannot go back. The ID card is an object that identifies you. You have to have it with you at all times. It makes police control much easier. If you can’t establish identity then they can take you to the police station without any other reason. Once they have the ID card in place then they can add other things- like biometric identification e.g. fingerprints. The base is the card and then they add things. The ID card is the beginning of a general file on everyone that regroups all other information they have to identify someone. They can have your whole life in this one file- your health, civil status etc.

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    Nicholas: Once the system is in place you cannot go back

    100%.

    Same goes with Digital Euro btw, no matter what the EU says about making it optional. It will be, sure, to begin with but they will also start pushing even more laws to help get rid of cash (in France, we’re already forbidden to carry more than a thousand euros in cash, I think it’s 500 in Greece (not sure about this one). And when cash will be gone so will be our ability to not be tracked when buying stuff. They will monitor every single of our transactions—and penalize whatever they decide is not good for us/the country/the planet/their businesses, be it too purchasing much gas, too much food (because one needs to be fit, unless they agree to not benefit health assurance maybe), too much clothes, or whatever (to just list a few legal things one can buy nowadays). They will also quickly use their (monopolistic) control over that digital euro (and over all our bank accounts) to punish any serious opposing their rules/laws by making said opponents unable to access or, say, to just use their money to buy stuff that would help them organize and contest them. “Sorry, Libb your purchase of Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ can’t be finalized. Instead, you can always scroll some more on social media. Have a nice day.

    What a bright future.

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      Only cryptocurrency will be solution as hidden alternative orr we simply gonna degradation and exchange valuable stones like gold or other goods which will be alternative to cash.

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        idk about crypto being an option for much longer - not in 10 years, I’d think. FIDO Alliance, a NWO/New World Order org, has been working for years to put for a mandatory biometrics/digital ID login each and every time a person uses the internet on phone or PC. There have already been authorities wanting to close down or control crypto. I agree, though, that metal coins will be used to trade: gold, silver, copper, maybe nickel, and not sure what else. They’ll probably be made illegal, too, but will still be used. I think we all need to find ways to work at least 5 to 10 hours off the books - a trade that is easier to hide. And, we need to start slowly to create black markets so that not only the bad guys are running black markets. Parallel societies are a great idea - dealing with mainly with people you know well…kind of like the Amish communities.