Within the last couple of hours, the SEC ISSUED AN INVESTIGATIVE REPORT CONCLUDING DAO TOKENS, A DIGITAL ASSET, WERE SECURITIES. Add to this the fact that US tax authorities got coinbase to submit all user data to 'audit' accounts mainly for tax evasion and the fact that central banks are aggressively looking to create their own cryptocurrency, are we being fooled?
If you had a nefarious plan to shift what we view as currency (and what we consider valuable), then wouldn't you implement it in the exact same way as it has happened?
Stage one; release a new concept (cryptocurrency) and test it out for a few years
Stage two; cause a bubble and lots of interest so that people can voluntarily run towards it and accept it
Stage three; Wilde west atmosphere leads to lots of fraud (in ICOS) leading to the verification of all identities of everyone in the world using blockchain (ehm civic), create enforceable international treaties and laws to regulate the creation and use of all crypto currencies (Attaching severe criminal penalties for anyone in contravention)
stage four; Upper class has an unlimited amount of never ending wealth while the rest of us are tricked
This is all just a thought and of course, i don't believe that it is the current state of affairs however who knows how it'll play out in the future.
