{"id":345402,"date":"2025-12-31T22:32:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/345402\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:32:53","slug":"digital-euro-what-it-is-and-how-we-will-use-the-new-form-of-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/345402\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital euro: what it is and how we will use the new form of cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe European Central Bank is determined to break the US grip on card payments\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Digital euro. Image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/focus.independent.ie\/thumbor\/HpRYpW4HR5aqsFBDp7rBEpdc6Iw=\/0x0:3238x2158\/960x640\/prod-mh-ireland\/56e0c2c9-9ab1-438c-b8eb-53bdb169cffd\/db2e6bc7-3263-46c5-88d5-2c2d964ef561\/IB%20digital%20euro.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Digital euro. Image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s January 1, 2029, the first day of the digital euro. You are in a shop buying milk and bread, and decide to pay with this new money. How exactly will it work?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">If you have a bank account, the digital euro will sit inside its app on your phone. The cost of the bread and milk can be taken out of your digital-euro wallet, which is separate from your regular bank account. You don\u2019t have a bank?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Central Bank is determined to break the US grip on card payments Digital euro. Image: Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[32616,38322,2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-345402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ecb","tag-john-burns","tag-mobile","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}