You gotta be kidding me.
There are two reasons why governments would like to adopt crytpo:
- the total lack of privacy - all transactions are a matter of public record, it just takes linking a wallet to a person and you're in
- no need to collect taxes to run the system - peers pay for their electricity, problem solved
That's about all I can see.
Yes, and? How is that contradicting what I said above?
Of course, if/when governments switch to a "cryptocurrency", it will likely be a system close to what nctnico seems to be advocating - "supernodes", which governments and central banks will have complete control over. Which is kind of the opposite of the current model, which is entirely decentralized.
Maybe your "You gotta be kidding me" was to answer my "many people currently fiercely against cryptocurrencies will embrace them as the next great progress, the day their governments..." point?
You may neither like cyrptocurrencies as they are now, nor a possible future use by governments, but that's another story entirely. Judging from yout typical opinions here, you do not seem to have the opinion of the "majority", which I was targeting here. I am pretty convinced what I said is what is going to happen, at least for a majority of people. =)