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Comment by CommanderData

The ability to shutdown any persons the government doesn't like using any growing list of $Excuses is worrying.

Currency is a freedom to perform transaction and arguably a given right, it's existed since humans learnt trade.

Cash allows anyone to transact without a prerequisite or control. Two parties. Centralised digital currency will change it.

That worry doesn't even include the privacy concerns and as systems become centralised either through standards or legislation. It will be easy to track someones habits or location globally.

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