> Overall I get the sense that the government is still people/organization centric and cannot wrap its head around a future where reality is determined by computer code and people are bit players in the script.

Conversely, people in government tend to view crypto folks as senselessly computer-centric and unable to view macroeconomics as the result of human interaction.

There is no such thing as value without exchange. That's a definitional thing. Coins themselves are just numbers.