Quote from: PalmerLaura on February 09, 2018, 12:33:27 PM

That's the main problem that governments see in cryptocurrences: they still don't know how to make it political. Crypto is technology made by common people for common people to make their lives easier and more comfortable but it doesn't work as the instrument of power competition or political control.

I would withhold judgment on that. For example, I would not be surprised if the Fed (maybe in partnership with the Bank of Japan) created Bitcoin in secret and released it to the world as a non-state-sponsored project.

Bitcoin is a perfect way for the US-led Western alliance to regain their power by reflating their debt-ridden economies after they've possibly run out of gold. You could easily argue the reflation is now under way. Almost too perfect.