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Bitcoin has severe privacy issues that are unlikely to go away. This as well as arrogance and willful blindness, to say nothing of greed, has predictably led us down a path where transparency (which facilitates control because it makes surveillance trivial and cheap) is now demanded, because the powers that be have grown too accustomed to all the control the transparency affords them (in the form of power over others). This and much more people like me have been screaming from the rooftops for decades. None of that makes Bitcoin a CBDC. It was not issued by a central bank, hence it cannot be CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY. This irresponsible incorrect usage of language (things like "veggies are shitcoins" .. veggies are not coins, therefore they cannot be shitcoins) is not helping with anything. CBDCs are just as bad as 99.999% of "cryptos" out there including Bitcoin in that they do not protect the user's privacy. But CBDCs are worse than Bitcoin in many other ways too, and therefore placing them on the same bag as Bitcoin arbitrarily is logically unsound when stripped of context. Context matters. Language matters.