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    How do banks work then? Transfers in cash? Or does that global consensus state in fact not rely on realtime communication?

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        And the digital euro is not connected to a bank? The digital euro is supposed to be a souvereign EU way of paying independent from 3rd party providers, yet somehow they can’t do what they can for ‘technical reasons’? Where is the digital euro actually happeneing? In some magical cloud that is totally not just someone elses (…a banks …) computer? Ffs… ages ago we sorted out the “double spending” problem to pay with just our signature, yet now it’s technically impossible without a constant internet connection…