Time doesn’t always have to follow borders, time zones, and daylight saving changes. Swatch Internet Time — also known as .beat time — divides the day into 1000 equal parts, measured from Biel, Switzerland, the home of Swatch. There are no hours or minutes — just one global rhythm that everyone shares.
That’s why I built and use Swatch Biel Time on my WordPress site. It’s a small reminder that the internet runs on its own time — borderless, simple, and always in sync. Alongside it, I also show the local Biel time, grounding this futuristic idea in its real-world origin.
For digital creators, coders, gamers, and anyone who loves the global nature of the web, Swatch Biel Time adds a unique touch — a bit of cyber-Swiss precision on every page.
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are not progress—they are a tool for control. Unlike cash or decentralized cryptocurrencies, CBDCs give governments unprecedented power to monitor, restrict, and even freeze your money at will. Every transaction could be tracked, spending habits analyzed, and dissent punished by cutting off access to funds.
Worse, programmable CBDCs could enforce expiration dates on money, dictate where you can spend it, or impose negative interest rates to force consumption. This isn’t financial innovation—it’s financial authoritarianism.
We are not tokens in the ledger of bureaucrats and politicians. Human dignity, autonomy, and the right to privacy should never be reduced to lines of code in a government database. Money is more than just data—it represents our labor, our choices, and our freedom. Turning it into a surveillance tool treats people like programmable assets rather than sovereign individuals.
If we value privacy, freedom, and true economic sovereignty, we must reject CBDCs before it’s too late. Once they’re in place, escaping this digital surveillance state will be nearly impossible.
MONEY AS MEAN OF CONTROL
China’s Social Credit System (SCS) and its potential integration with Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) is a growing concern for privacy and financial freedom advocates. While no country has yet fully implemented a CBDC with explicit social scoring like China’s SCS, the technological infrastructure of CBDCs makes such control possible.
Here are some resources discussing the risks of programmable CBDCs and their potential for surveillance and behavior control:
China’s Social Credit System & Digital Yuan (e-CNY)
