I hope everyone realizes I was correct when I wrote "Bitcoin : The Digital Kill Switch" in March 2013.
Don't you see? The powers-that-be planted Bitcoin in order to force the nation-states to adopt their own digital currencies.
Thud! It just hit my consciousness.
Self-defeating attitude, den Schwanz einziehend (pulling in the cock, as we say in German, chickening out).
Also untrue. Centrally controlled digital currencies would have come either way. No need to allure the population with Bitcoin first. A nice Apple or Facebook app will suffice (with strong lobby for subsidization to prevent high fees due to "customer" "protection" and AML/KYC costs).
Why The Deep State Always Wins: The Zero-Sum Game of Perpetual War
http://cryptome.org/2014/08/deep-state-wins.pdf1/ IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
2/ WAR IS PEACE
3/ SLAVERY IS FREEDOM
Like it or lump it, well do what we like. So just get used to it, world.
4/ RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
"Schwanz einziehen"-Attitude again.