>The government has historically done a pretty bad job of this... I'd say the government is _currently_ doing a bad job of this. Historically, at least in the

>The government has historically done a pretty bad job of this... I'd say the government is _currently_ doing a bad job of this. Historically, at least in the 1000+ years prior to the advent of digital payments, governments did a great job of facilitating uncensorable peer-to-peer payments by minting various types of currency (commodity, fiat or otherwise) that people could subsequently trade how they saw fit. It seems plausible to me that the last 100 years of private-organisation facilitated transfers is ultimately revealed to be an anomaly.