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expedition32today at 11:21 AM1 replyview on HN

At no point in human history did the government not try to control currencies.


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jeroenhdtoday at 11:40 AM

But only since the digital age did the government actually _succeed_ in controlling currency on a massive scale, right up until the point cryptocurrency took off (and even that can be tracked, most cryptocurrencies are based on a public ledger after all).