Yes. That said, I find that possibility highly unlikely. Cryptocurrencies are a direct and powerful threat to all existing power structures. If for example t

Yes. That said, I find that possibility highly unlikely. Cryptocurrencies are a direct and powerful threat to all existing power structures. If for example they were a material country, the west would have been at war with that country and would have dismantled them already long before they entered public discourse or understanding. They are a threat of that scale to banking and traditional power. They are more dangerous than terrorists, more dangerous than even nukes I would argue, so if you could control them / discredit them / invalidate them, even if it meant exposing some secret crypto vulnerabilities, you absolutely would. That is to say, if you could break it you simply would, which would then crush the mechanism and they would no longer be an existential threat to traditional structures.