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Its a walled garden. Cryptocurrency is federal, nation level politics. Many people have been beaten up over currency. It is a massive power to be able to force the the rest of the world to use your money for international trade and only you have the right to print that money.

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Talk of the "post dollar world" and the "cashless society" has been going on for more than a decade.

There was a time when if you said people would wear tracking chips you'd be labeled a kook. Today people willingly carry smart phones connected to social networks.

The disruption is similar in both cases. The result is predictable. The goals have already been stated at Davos.

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