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There is this same story, whether it is crypto, climate, or economics: A big, powerful country comes up with a “breakthrough” idea - green energy, digital money, new work models. Suddenly, poorer countries feel pressured to copy them, even if the context back home is totally different. It is FOMO, but in a macro scale. No one wants to be left behind, right?
Poorer countries are being pressured to follow the big countries in the "battle against climate change". Crypto doesn't have anything to do with this. Nobody forces poor countries to adopt crypto. Most poor countries are adopting crypto voluntarily.
Your example with Northern Ireland only shows one thing. Stupid left wing government programs do exist and they will keep existing forever.
It's like when the British colonial government in India paid the Indians for every captured cobra, the Indians started building cobra farms.
Every government program, which involves giving money to someone sooner or later gets exploited.