It was you that said the global currency couldnt be a digital Bitcoin type currency and I jsut corrected you that it already is. Of course individual countries have theor own fiat used by the population but the major trade is often in Dollars. Due to central banks being all linked then each country having a differnt picture on the front doesnt make it anymore a digital fiat printed by central banks. A digital dollar from the FED could very easily be implemented with a digital Pound....Franc....etc from the ECB and individual central banks.

By the way its a mistake to think nation borders matter that much in this discussion. I'm not American by the way.

The community . I don't want to be a party popper but the BTC community is still negligibly small, and a part of it not in BTC because of whateverism but for grabbing some "internet money" and cash out in fiat asap. (Means: they are not really what I'd call hardcore bitcoin fans). Shortly: the govt not  going to give a shit about the opinion of this community.

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But no, its unfortunate that so many people are uneducated in terms of bitcoin, that they won't see past the government's bullshit if they do try to make bitcoin illegal in the next while. That said, its also hard to expect so many people to understand all the technical aspects that make bitcoin so brilliant as it is a quite complicated system.

Yeah, that's true. But the reason for it being sidelined is due to lack of popularity, but also the lack of understanding in why bitcoin is superior to fiat. If people actually learned about bitcoin instead of listening to the media that makes it seem like a sketchy thing used for illegal purposes, it would be much more used and much more difficult to replace

Exactly. The government does. That's why people should learn to think for themselves instead of soaking up and believing everything they're being fed

It would not kill bitcoin for the moment, such as stellar or the other, whether it can kill bitcoin and other coins? I think not, instead it will enliven the existing situation in the world cryptocurrency

No. Your analogy is just not accurate. If you want to put it that way you should say rather: "and then people created coin LiteCoin, DogeCoin, DarkCoin, PayCoin and dozen other coins and any of it didn't kill bitcoin". This is the analogy we are looking here. I fear than IBM might create something that will be just another sophisticated altcoin with maybe better code or some upgrades and of course with full blessing of US government and Federal Reserve System.

If I get the BNN article right(not the crappy Cryptocoin News-Article, which is mostly about the price),
they want to keep the old system, but add a blockchain, a public ledger. That means, nothing changes but all your transactions are public known.
Who is going to voluntarily use that? Where is the use case for that technology? Why not just use cash, which is not public known?
The blockchain for bitcoin makes sense, because we have to know, where the money comes from. If we use a fiat blockchain, you most likely just see, that a bank put new USD on the blockchain. That doesn't in any way change, that they can easily rig the system without you knowing.

I wonder, how the ads for that would look like. I can't think of a way to present it, to make people want to use it.

I don't think it's possible for it to die completely but who knows it could go to $50k or $5.

Price like that won't happen, don't worry. Amount of assets invested in bitcoin is already too great to abandon this project just like that. Big players won't let it die like that, and with their help we could be able to push and pump price to reasonable value.