Britcoin or Britcon? Bank of England grilled on Digital Pound privacy concerns

At least the economists seem to have a better grip on tech than Online Safety Bill pushers...

"Nobody in this country wants there to be programmable digital currency like the Chinese system, where the government can basically determine what you look at, what you're spending, and determine what you can spend it on," said a member of the Treasury Committee grilling the incoming deputy governor of Financial Stability for the Bank of England.…