How to issue a central bank digital currency
On HN one is in minority, but not alone, when seeing centrally planned economies as a moral evil and an invitation for inefficiency. Americans in ‘71 stopped pinning $35=1oz AU (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wtfhappenedin1971.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wtfhappenedin1971.com&#x2F;</a>). For this reason, central bank money, with planned (not natural) supply, are not good.<p>Are there any easy way for a merchant to accept gold payment nowadays, and have it registered in their bookkeeping - like a debit account but for gold, not $? Alternatively, a debit card where I deposit gold to my bank, and it is sold when I withdraw cash with the card from the ATM?