The launch of the digital euro could give every European a free, universal payment account. But this grand vision is at risk of being curtailed by a well-coordinated lobbying campaign of the banking industry. Banks want to make sure you will keep needing them – and they have EU officials’ ears.
Leaves traces like everything else, is extremely energy intensive and you can’t use it for most things.
So in short, get all the downsides of bitcoin and make climate change even worse…