That’s a fascinating idea but no I don’t think so. I think crypto is just liquidity for the future internet. The idea it has any purpose as a currency seems to me like a relic of the failed Bitcoin principles.
Crypto is a bit like the early internet. People thought the liberation of information would make people smarter and democracies. Instead we built giant skinner boxes where people ignore valuable information in favor of random stimuli.
It’s likely the most dystopian outcome for crypto is the most likely - something like Central Bank Digital Currencies where every transaction is logged and financial privacy is erased. At the edge you might have something like flexible pricing where anyone who doesn’t own a business will be charged more money for transactions if they have more money, thus making sure that capital owns everything and can’t be threatened in the future.
> Central Bank Digital Currencies where every transaction is logged and financial privacy is erased.
That is already the case though with just regular bank accounts and debit/credit cards, no? There's still privacy in cash, but cash is getting more and more limits placed on it to make it harder to use for this exact reason - and it's not even new, e.g. Sweden has been intentionally openly pursuing "cashless society" as a goal for over 20 years now.
