Or maybe it's no trouble at all. Your claim is simply ignored because it didn't make it to the master list of scams.

In a decentralized system, there can be no master list of anything. Or rather, if there is a master list, the system is by definition not decentralized.
For my part, I'm not ready to give that principle up.
Neither am I. It's just a hypothesis about how government/institutions would react if this technology were available. The speculation is not sterile, since it may become available any day, if there is enought interest. Not necessarily interest in this community.