Central bank digital currencies are a joke.
We already have a digital dollar.
It's called USD.
So if/when they boot up a new currency using this strategy, people are going to ask questions like, "Okay, why should I use this instead of other cryptocurrency?" And there is no answer to that question except "because we said so and we have weapons".
The only thing that CBDC do is make real crypto actually valid in the eyes of the public. With their last dying breath they are going to fully legitimize the thing that made them extinct... it's a pretty weird thought.
I can't agree more with this, I also believe that will legitimate crypto, about the success of CBDC's is still soon to say, but I don't have any confidence in them.
It's simply another fiat currency.
There's nothing special about it.
I can't understand what they expect to gain except trying to trick users.