Manifesto CoreTechnology, AI and Human-Scale Life
Cash and Non-Digital Access
Citizens should retain meaningful access to physical money and to face-to-face public services.
Policy catalogueTechnology, AI and Human-Scale Life
DerivedCentral Bank Digital Currencies
A CBDC must not replace physical cash or become a compulsory, programmable system of transaction surveillance.
Position
A central-bank digital currency may be tolerated as an optional payment instrument only under strict privacy and decentralization safeguards.
Policy
- Do not abolish cash in favour of a mandatory CBDC.
- Do not require salaries, benefits or ordinary transactions to use CBDC infrastructure exclusively.
- Do not permit routine government monitoring of every lawful transaction.
- Prohibit programmable political restrictions on otherwise lawful purchases.
- Prohibit artificial expiry of citizens' money.
- Prohibit use of CBDCs for social-credit systems.
- Preserve meaningful private transactions within proportionate anti-crime rules.
Implementation note
Implementation note
The manifesto does not name CBDCs, but explicitly guarantees meaningful access to physical money and rejects unnecessary technological dependency and surveillance.
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Digital Identification
Digital identification may exist as an optional convenience, but ordinary civic participation must not require compulsory digital-only identity.
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Cryptocurrency
Lawful cryptocurrency ownership and transfer should remain permitted, while fraud, theft and abusive centralized custody remain regulated.
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Finance, Lending and Usury
Finance should serve productive activity. Legitimate lending and reasonable return are accepted; exploitative interest and debt traps are not.
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