The first big digital bearer asset system to really go big, it was bitcoin. The whole idea was to thwart the ability of governments to know who the real human being was behind a particular bitcoin address. There's always going to be an intermediary that just doesn't want the risk of banking or providing financial services to people on the sort of marginalized or minorityof a society. So so that the political ability to use these intermediaries in the financial system for a legitimate protest.

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