Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor
(www.theguardian.com)
- It becomes impossible to avoid taxes.
- The flow of money through the economy would be easier to trace and examine.
- Increasing and decreasing the monetary supply becomes trivial to control inflationary or deflationary pressures.
- money laundering becomes difficult, since every transaction can be scrutinized.
The only useful purpose for crypto is as fiat currency. Whether that’s a good idea is another matter, since it would eliminate transaction privacy.
Since governments are becoming more fascistic, I generally think this is a bad idea, since it would give governments more power (to do good or evil).