Doesn't help that the US seems set on destroying the world's confidence in the US dollar: first the 2008 financial crises and monetary creation (I.e. devaluation) in response; then much more recently they hammered nails in the coffin of Breton Woods 2 (I.e. the post-1971 monetary status quo of floating fiat currencies) by confiscating the Afghan Central Bank's reserves (which included private individuals' deposits, and they gave the money to families of September 11th victims) and by freezing the assets of the Russian Central Bank. inter-Central Bank settlements were supposed to be apolitical. All that in the context of multiple hot wars (Iran in 2003 and then Libya, perhaps?) and military actions that appear to be in defense of US dollar dominance: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-hidden-costs-of-the-....