

How Will CBDCs Impact Gold?
Jul 6, 2025
10:47
How Will CBDCs Impact Gold?
Using Gold as a means to opt out of a darkening digital financial future
Using precious metals as a means to opt out of a darkening digital financial future.
n this commentary, Matthew Piepenburg delivers a passionate critique of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), portraying them as instruments of centralized control and financial surveillance. While the stated topic may appear to be about how CBDCs will affect precious metals, the content does not directly answer that question.
Instead, the entire thrust—especially in the final four minutes—is to argue that the only way to justify holding physical gold and silver is by first revealing how dangerous the CBDC system truly is.
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