Damaging interest prices have already been rolled out in Denmark and Switzerland, which are the two practically cashless societies.Some argue that this gives the authorities (financial institutions) a increased diploma of control given that, with no cash, bank runs are not possible
If you say the government gains nothing from all these, then youre saying it wrong. Okay, lets say youre mining Bitcoin, and at the end of the month you pay your bills- tell me, who are you paying the bills to, isnt it government that youre paying all those to? No matter what, they always have their own ways of gaining from all these developments.
I agree with your prespective about this dude and i think governments like japan and australia are seeing the potential of this as well. Im not really sure about china, considering they have probably the largest btc community. It seems the government there doesn't want anything they can't control