💬 Friday thread: free money

Central bank digital currencies are hot.

• 🇧🇸 Bahamas: the sand dollar was the first

• 🇳🇬 The e-naira launches on October 1st - it could help the financial excluded

• 🇨🇳 China had a material pilot of the e-renminbi, which had programmatic rules about spending.

• 🇬🇧 UK: “Digital cash could be programmed to spend only on essentials”

• 🇺🇸 US is preparing a pape…