Let's say we belong to Guardia and are maligned with a nation known as Runefaust.
Runefaust has a government that we, the Guardians, would ideally like to see overthrown. It's current goals and positions are opposed to our own, but they are not worth the international upheaval that would happen if we used armed intervention to remove their current rulers. As well, we fear that if we simply remove the current leaders through non-traditional means (such as assassination) this will create a power vacuum that could cause an even less desirable ruler to emerge.
Now, what if we could be confident that we were about to grow one of the predominant financial networks on Earth? This would be a cryptographic currency network like Bitcoin or Monero. In this case, international meddling just got a lot more *elegant*.
Now we don't need to intervene at all in Runefaust's affairs. After all, money is literally influence. Money is power. No dictator could possibly stand in the way of an opposed idealist who owned 1/100th of all the gold on Earth. All we have to do (as Guardia) is make sure that we select the right foreign "targets", convince them to own & hodl a sizable percentage of our future network, and then ensure their vision stays aligned with our own.
If a single cryptocurrency (or select few) truly becomes a global standard of wealth, then the next bourgeoisie will be the majority holders of that ledger. The future leaders and influences of most major nations will be forged in the early days of said network as it balloons.
Just a thought experiment: All influence is money, and all money is influence. To destroy a rival, all you need to is remove their influence. Because money and its network effect is of a fluid nature based upon the sum of human progress/potential (you can't destroy it as it moves between humans; it can only change forms) then the ideal time to redefine maligned governments would be right as the global standard for money is about to shift.
Hypothetical Conclusion: With foresight and/or accurate predictions about which cryptocurrency will become a global standard, it may be possible for a government to severely disrupt a rival government by simple social engineering.
