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>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.



Digital payments also present a uniquely frictionless route for a functioning democratic government to tax goods and build a better society


Yes, all governments are honest, non-corrupt, and never abuse power.


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




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