Reckon the PtB are well in on it.
They want us all to go digital, so they can have serious negative rates, the next time they screw up. Plus all the other easy controls over us, that they give. As long as cash is around, that, negative rates doesn’t work, as people just pull their money and stick it under the mattress. Paper money supply went up in the UK by over 30 % in 2007/9, as people stuffed it under their beds, rather than get hit by negative rates.
Apparently the UK nearly announced it was going to be the 1st country to go digital, back under that idiot Cameron, but his Chancellor, realised it was still a huge vote loser then and the announcement was pulled…..so it is highly possible that Cyrpto’s are the softening up process…..