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CBDCs retain most of the value, even if they're not on a distributed blockchain:

* 24x7x365 commerce and trading - no more wire-cutoff deadlines.

* lower fees - no more middlemen taking 10s-100s of basis points.

* "programmatic money" - clean, open APIs for lending, hedges, derivatives, futures, pooling, etc.

* transparency and safety - reduce Lehman-type debacles: more "money" is visible to the Fed and it's less common for private companies to invisibly create (large) private debts.

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