Nice write up, but i think the whole "if you can't beat em, join em" mentality will overtake the general population at the tipping point, and political associations to money will dissolve.
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I kind of agree with this mentality, but there is more involved than disagreeing with quality & price. As advances in technology and technology advances, old ways of doing things are useless and getting left behind. In our case, decentralized money keeps the government's money out of date. Now we can save money, without losing profits from a stable and non-liquid currency.
  Like many respondents here and I have greater confidence in human nature to give a good and correct response to what might happen. But if the European experiment we just saw revealed telling us anything, you can not have a single monetary system without a single government. I see the transition as a monumental challenge, and will require visionary leaders to take a counter-intuitive leap of faith in the future.