I doubt the USG is competent enough to have a masterplan like that. This just seems to me like the actions of a person (Gary Gensler) who personally dislikes cryptocurrencies and who is trying to establish himself as a political player through his "bold actions".

None of the time that libertarian beliefs could protect civil liberties is it ever taken seriously. It exists solely to launder corporate protections and deregulation.

Nothing significant happen to the NSA after the Snowden leaks, nothing significant happened to the FISA court. Also I don’t get how something like CBDC ever exists because of how powerful Visa is.