> Governments in the west are quite accountable, voted for and with a system of checks and balances that has evolved over time, through wars and revolutions. I

> Governments in the west are quite accountable, voted for and with a system of checks and balances that has evolved over time, through wars and revolutions. I think this is where you're losing people. For the most part, it isn't true, and the trend seems to be shaped as a downward slope. The "government" of the US still imprisons 2 million people, mostly because it has a list of plants and chemicals it doesn't like and won't negotiate on. That's just one example of its ongoing dysfunction. It's completely reasonable, in a mature and thoughtful society, to try doing things in a completely different way. I'm not sure that cryptocurrencies are a good answer, but they're at least a good question.