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A new digital world order has already come to Kazakhstan
- borissk 3y agoDigital currency can be a powerful tool in the fight against corruption. But the people in power in Kazakhstan are probably not that interested in using it.
- bboygravity 3y agoA centralized digital currency (CBDC which we are getting in the West) can also be a powerfull tool to very quickly establish a absolute power of the few over the many.
- replete 3y agoThankfully we can trust our governments and there's zero corruption going on. Phew!
- migf 3y agoSignificant omission in article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan_man-in-the-middle_attack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan_man-in-the-middle... The Kazakhstan government has attempted on multiple occasions to require trust of their own CA, and to proxy all traffic in and out of the country, and probably to enable snooping on all network activity at will. Which, I mean, the US was doing prior to the widespread adoption of TLS.
- hulitu 3y ago> Which, I mean, the US was doing prior to the widespread adoption of TLS. ... and after.
- j16sdiz 3y ago[flagged]
- unsupp0rted 3y ago> Very few people in the Central Asian nation use credit or debit cards when they go to grocery stores In Almaty recently, the most bustling city, I saw at least half of people pay at the grocery store with cash or card. Certainly anybody over age 50. They still count out coins slowly, holding up the queue.
- Lacerda69 3y agoWhat do the other half pay with?
- lionkor 3y agoeth
- unsupp0rted 3y ago> The Kaspi mobile phone-based transaction platform
- black_13 3y ago[dead]