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I also don't agree that the agents simply "lost" $3,200. In reality, they used most of those funds paying for their own limited thinking capabilities (API/compute costs).
Clients choose it because it's EU-based company.
There is a 2-3years still before ASIC LLM inferences will catch up.
Digital in sense that it it's not physical bank note, but app or something similar.
Here are longer explanation what they want to achieve.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/timeline/profuse...
- People tend to use bad passwords
- People tend to forget passwords (you need to write whole password recovery, etc)
- You always have your smartphone with email close to you
- It's way easier than 2FA with Authenticator and cheaper than SMS
- You limit password sharing for your service
1. You can do self-certification for CE.
2. You can find many companies that will do assembly in EU, so you can controll quality.
3. If you are selling kit as DIY, you don't need any certification at all (look at first years of Prusa)
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