> At some point a national payment rail makes sense though it offends my capitalistic sensibilities though currency violates that too. It’s not at all clear to

> At some point a national payment rail makes sense though it offends my capitalistic sensibilities though currency violates that too. It’s not at all clear to me why anyone thinks that it’s “anti-capitalistic” for a tax-collecting democratic government to provide a digital API to transact with their sovereign fiat currency. Why should that be a rent-seeking competitive business left to the private sector? Could you or someone clarify?