Excellent posting. There is no doubt removal of cash plays right into the hands of socialist governments so they can extract more and more tax and similarly electronically capture bank account identifiers, spending patterns income levels and so on.

The adventures of the Indian Government are worth watching, notwithstanding the plight of the populace, having to face removal of cash and introduction of an insidious and ubiquitous value added tax.

Tap and Go make it easy for lazy humans hoodwinking them into the trap.

Most block chain transactions will be visible to the regulators, it is just early days yet (for surveillance and capture).

The planet needs more privacy based crypto, acknowledging some very good ones exist.

To show how insidious and enslaving removal of cash can be see: - Australia - has tax file numbers joined into citizen held bank accounts so that Authorities monitor transactions and (by black letter law) raid those bank accounts to steal money masquerading as unpaid taxes.

Using gold and silver to transact is not piratical.

I doubt Governments will allow privacy coins to flourish.

We face tumultuous times indeed.