Florida will “never recognize a centralized digital currency” in the state, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office said on April 11, one day after state lawmakers proposed legislation that would ban central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) from being used.
DeSantis’ press secretary Bryan Griffin made the comments in a post on Twitter, where he said that CBDCs are “critical to big government and globalist agendas.”
Griffin shared an image alongside his post that states that “Biden bureaucrats are working to further weaponize the financial sector” through such a digital currency that will ultimately serve as “another way of increasing surveillance and control of Americans.”…