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I didn't say it's only going to be a reserve assets, though. It will be a fully functioning currency, and plenty of stuff will be priced in it.

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Over what time frame? I can see them coexisting for a while. Power structures can impose currencies. But I think it will soon be very difficult to create a new national currency when the old one fails, because a Bitcoin economy can spring up naturally very quickly. It will also be hard to maintain a national currency with Bitcoin waiting to precipitate a bank run if the national currency is abused.

Preventing Bitcoin will require strong authoritarianism, which is not an efficient means of governing and will lose out to more free economies.