Private sector: This is your time. The free market has been waiting for you. You don't need the government to do this.
A country that controls a currency that is used by many people outside its own borders is analogous to a cryptocurrency with a "proof of stake" consensus algorithm in which holders of sovereign bonds are rewarded with "interest". The central bank may periodically make policy pronouncements which may be analogous to various soft and hard forks (change of interest rate -> change of mining reward) which may impact the valuation relative to other currencies. Certain countries/currencies have a very long track record of not having very many "zero day vulnerabilities" and are therefore highly trusted and a first choice whenever there is a "flight to safety" (when panic strikes and there is demand for "safe" investments).
As an aside, it's a shame posts like the OP get flagged. It's somewhat ironic on a site that encourages curiosity and scientific endeavors that you can't discuss the hollowing out of public scientific institutions.
Yeah.. that's not how this works, generally.
So many examples counter it, too. Just read about how CRISPR was discovered [0]. Do you think many companies would encourage the investigation of bacterial DNA patterns, just out of curiosity?
[0] https://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(15)01705-5 (admittedly, this is an MIT biased slant, but you get the point)