{"id":76849,"date":"2023-04-07T13:45:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T10:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=76849"},"modified":"2025-09-10T19:47:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:47:25","slug":"digital-euro-used-for-control-pranksters-impersonate-ecb-chief-in-zelenskys-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/digital-euro-used-for-control-pranksters-impersonate-ecb-chief-in-zelenskys-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital euro used for &#8216;control&#8217;: pranksters impersonate ECB chief in Zelensky&#8217;s voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video circulating online shows the <span data-descr=\"European Central Bank\" class=\"old_tooltip\">ECB<\/span> President Christine Lagarde allegedly in dialogue with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, acknowledging that authorities intend to control transactions through the digital euro.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: ?? European Central Bank President reveals plans to launch a digital euro (CBDC), says there will be control over payments. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/szCFxBkZDR\">pic.twitter.com\/szCFxBkZDR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WatcherGuru\/status\/1644122520478445570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As Cointelegraph noted, the original video <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v2ddlps-prank-with-the-president-of-the-european-central-bank-christine-lagarde.html\">\u043e\u043f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d<\/a> by Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus on March 17. The authors of the Zelensky impersonation asked Lagarde about protests over the introduction <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-central-bank-digital-currency-cbdc\">CBDC<\/a> in Europe and the public&#8217;s unwillingness to be under state control.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the ECB chief noted that the digital euro would indeed be &#8220;limitedly controllable&#8221; by authorities for monitoring payments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We are considering the possibility of a zero-control mechanism for very small amounts, around \u20ac300-\u20ac400. But that could be dangerous,&#8221; Lagarde added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to her, small anonymous transactions often become sources of financing for terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The ECB chief also explained the importance of introducing the digital euro as a way to avoid dependence on &#8220;currencies of unfriendly countries&#8221; or &#8220;currencies of private corporations such as Facebook, Google or Amazon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The crypto community <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MasonVersluis\/status\/1644123600390348800\">sharply criticized<\/a> Lagarde&#8217;s statement, especially regarding payment controls. Twitter users urged not to use &#8220;this nonsense&#8221; and to favour exclusively decentralized cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019d personally like to thank Christina LeGarde for choosing to advance bitcoin by making it so painfully obvious to the masses where all this is going.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u20bfitcoin Kramer \u26a1\ufe0f\u26a1\ufe0f\u26a1\ufe0f (@KramericaBTC_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KramericaBTC_\/status\/1644129979372916736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I would personally like to thank Christine Lagarde for choosing to advance Bitcoin by clearly showing where all this is heading,&#8221; one of them wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In July 2021<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ecb-clears-the-way-for-the-research-phase-of-the-digital-euro\"> started<\/a> the research phase for the digital euro, which will run until September 2023. It was envisaged that by then the regulator would decide on the advisability of issuing CBDC.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2022, ECB Executive Board member Fabio Panetta allowed for CBDC issuance by 2026 with an issuance cap of 1.5 trillion. <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.news\/v-etsb-oboznachili-sroki-vypuska-tsifrovogo-evro\/\">\u0432\u044b\u043f\u0443\u0441\u043a CBDC \u0434\u043e 2026 \u0433\u043e\u0434\u0430<\/a> with an issuance cap of 1.5 trillion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video circulating online shows the ECB President Christine Lagarde allegedly acknowledging that authorities intend to control transactions through the digital euro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[205,1753,1410,1209],"class_list":["post-76849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-christine-lagarde","tag-digital-euro","tag-ecb","tag-fake-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76851,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76849\/revisions\/76851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}