Commentary At the Beijing Winter Olympics, China is rolling out its digital currency, the e-CNY, for the first time to foreigners. Nobody should want to attend the Games given the genocide. But if you were forced to go, then you would have the option of prepaying a credit card with digital Chinese yuan loaded for touchless payments. Or you could buy the more gimmicky versions, with payment chips embedded in ski gloves or a panda soft toy. You can now buy your hot chocolate without freezing your hand first by removing your glove to dig into pockets for change. Progress, apparently. It is at times like these that one appreciates the supposed innovations of dictatorship. But for those droids always looking for the next greatest and latest, wrist implantable e-CNY is not yet available. And forgotten by most are the wearable payment methods that Visa promoted during the 2018 Games. …
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