Is this possibly an April Fool's story that was released too soon? Seriously, this is way bad. Without any way of justifying this feeling I have, it just "feel

Is this possibly an April Fool's story that was released too soon? Seriously, this is way bad. Without any way of justifying this feeling I have, it just "feels" like the beginning of the end of a financial system with players who have any independence at all, and the beginning of a system with only one player.