>Digital payments does present a uniquely frictionless route for tyrannical governments to assert power should they ever decide to weaponize it…unlike paper money which is harder to control.
This is true, and there's already a proposed law to ban paper money in Brazil.
No, but abusing a payment system makes little sense. If people don't trust it they won't use it and then it serves no purpose. Incentives between government and people can have overlap
This is true, and there's already a proposed law to ban paper money in Brazil.