Practical action on CBDC: Never go to the second location
https://corac.co/2023/05/24/never-go-to-the-second-location/
"... Now is the time to stand and fight. The easiest way is to use cash now, for everything. Vendors whose sales are 60 percent or 80 percent or 100 percent cash are not going to want to go cashless, despite the incentives dangled before them. Using cash is so simple. You don’t have to write letters or drive to your state capitols with signs and banners. Just use cash. For everything. ..."
Good article stressing the strategic importance going all-cash right now.
I also suspect it will actually get implemented then fail almost immediately. I guess time will tell.