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RE: Why central banks don't care about bitcoin?
I think if they did that it would ultimately backfire on them. If the U.S. government developed its own cryptocurrency that would legitimize cryptocurrency to the public and a great amount of them are going to go to the far more developed decentralized cryptocurrencies. Even if they forced them to use Mericacoin(tm) there's not much they can do to stop them from using others as well.
what if US Government will create Mericacoin and advertise it everywhere as "the only reliable cryptocurrency, backed by the economy of USA" ?
They do the same with dollar, same thing as every country does. They give fake promises and make people believe that currencies that we have nowadays are backed by something big and reliable. But, in fact, all currencies are bubbles, inflated only by the trust of people in them.
The problem is, the most part of population will switch to Mericacoin and won't even try other cryptos. Even if the government tell them that it will keep their private keys for some serious reason, such as safety or, let's use the most popular reason - to fight terrorism somehow.
The only way to avoid such situation - to make everyone know that the main thing cryptocurrencies bring - total financial freedom, where your money are truly your's and no government, no department or service can touch them, block your accounts, take part of it to make you pay your taxes and so on.
I can definitely see where you’re coming from, but we already have a decade of crypto history that demonstrates people can be free and I don’t think propaganda is going to be able to erase that. There’ll always be fools that fall for it but I think a huge number of people aren’t going to buy it.
on the other hand, any news about regulations on cryptos influence the price and popularity. So, basically, governments can influence cryptos and they do it. And that's news only. What if someone starts some serious mass media campaign? The vast majority will fall for it.
At some point, this example shows that people still don't believe that they can be free.