If you had the power to create currency from nothing, would you give up that power?
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Not a chance in hell
Only if I had the capital to create purchasing power legitimately, like through selling or borrowing off of bitcoin, doing work, etc.
This is likely what will happen with the American government in the long run: they won't give up the money printer until they have so much bitcoin and so much genuine services to offer that they no longer feel it is profitable to usurp value from money.
I like this thought experiment. "If I were an evil bastard like Papa Powell or Jeffrey Epstein's Banker, I'd..."