>"The government is watching! And with good reason. Cryptocurrency has always had a strong counter-power narrative built into it. “Dirty fiat!”, exclaims the forum crowd. Whether this narrative is quite borne out by reality when you consider the aggregation of Bitcoin in the hands of a few oligarch whales remains an open question — and not entirely the point of this article.Yet the fact remains that decentralized money systems that are free of the government’s legal mitts and control do reduce — ultimately — the power of national governments in our daily lives. So naturally, with the advent of the industry, they want in."