The “great lockdown” returns, not with movement restrictions, but with an invisible clamp now tightening around the entire economic life of European citizens.
Under the pretext of “combating money laundering” and “digital transition,” the European Union (EU) is activating a multi-layered surveillance system that turns cash, Bitcoin, and every form of anonymous transaction into endangered species.
Starting in 2027, the economic environment of Europe will resemble nothing of today: upper limits on cash, full identification requirements for cryptocurrencies, digital identities everywhere, and the arrival of the digital euro create an unprecedented regime of control.
What is being built silently, yet consistently, resembles a digital camp more than a modern economy.
Specifically, the German program The Pulse summarizes what has been built for years, and what now, through EU laws and regulations, has been engraved in stone.
The EU is not simply creating a digital currency, nor just a digital identity system, nor merely a new regulation for fighting money laundering.
It is creating an entire social model of control, one that radically drains cash, autonomous transactions, and anonymous cryptocurrency movements.
Cash restrictions, crypto identification, digital euro - 2027 as a turning point
Starting January 2027, multiple regulatory frameworks will come into force in Europe, all aimed at the same outcome:
Cash payments above 10,000 euros become illegal, anonymous wallets disappear, every crypto-transaction above 1,000 euros requires state approval, banks, businesses, citizens, all integrated into a mandatory identification network, the digital euro arrives in 2029, backed by a multi-billion budget, with a balance limit per person and full tracking capability.
These are not drafts, not proposals, not theoretical studies by think tanks, they are law.
A decision that directly affects 340 million people.
The official pretext: Money laundering
The real effect: Total surveillance.
The EU has claimed for years that large cash transactions “escape institutional control due to their nature.”
That is precisely the issue: control.
Although Europe consistently fails to tackle real criminals, every citizen who buys a used car with cash or transfers Bitcoin anonymously will be considered a potential offender.
A jeweler who accepts 11,000 euros? Criminal.
A citizen who transfers 50 euros in Bitcoin? Identification required, like opening a bank account.
Buying a car with cash? Regulatory violation.
At the very moment real cybercrime skyrockets, Brussels focuses on recording every citizen.
Cryptography is stripped down - And intentionally
The supposed message of freedom associated with the crypto-economy, autonomy, decentralization, independence from the state, is eliminated through MiCA:
1) Ban on anonymous wallets
2) Mandatory user identification on all exchanges
3) Recording of every transaction through regulated channels
4) Non-custodial wallets allowed only with compulsory identity verification
Cryptography becomes an electronic certificate that exists only with state permission, exactly the opposite of why Bitcoin was created.
Es ist ein Satz, der alles sagt: „Europa hat gerade das Ende der finanziellen Freiheit beschlossen – und niemand hat es bemerkt.“
— Don (@Donuncutschweiz) November 12, 2025
Die neue Sendung The Pulse bringt auf den Punkt, was seit Jahren heraufzieht – und was nun, durch EU-Gesetze und Verordnungen, in Stein gemeißelt… pic.twitter.com/42pb65Q6gm
The digital euro – A “cash alternative” that looks like a control tool
The ECB claims the digital euro will be “like cash,” just digital.
But leaked documents reveal something very different:
A 3,000-euro balance limit, transaction analysis via technical interfaces, monitoring of transactions above certain thresholds, and reliance on wallet providers approved by the state.
When all economic activity becomes digital and every transaction is recorded, privacy becomes an illusion.
A global plan - Europe as the test subject
The Pulse notes that this development is not a European peculiarity.
It is part of a global identity system, interoperable across states, promoted by governments, Big Tech, and international organizations.
Europe is only the beginning, the “testing ground.”
Vietnam, Thailand, Canada, and Australia have already implemented variants.
In Vietnam, millions of bank accounts were blocked because citizens refused to provide biometric data, and within days most complied.
This is the method: resistance collapses when a citizen is denied access to money.
COVID as the catalyst - Obedience as government strategy
One sentence from The Pulse hits especially hard: “COVID was the springboard.”
Governments saw how easily millions accepted unprecedented restrictions.
Now comes phase two: economic control instead of medical control.
The EU is creating, almost silently, a system that:
1) eliminates cash
2) criminalizes private transactions
3) fully regulates cryptocurrencies
4) introduces dominance of digital currencies
5) eliminates financial privacy
6) integrates identities, wallets, accounts, and payments into one single control grid
The result: a financial cage.
Not of barbed wire, but of regulations, databases, algorithms, and digital identity.
What is required now
The message ends with a clear call:
Local exchange systems, decentralized structures, physical gold and silver, awareness of what is happening, immediate resistance before the laws become reality.
Because one thing is clear:
If Europe falls in 2027, the remaining states will follow.
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