Just to catch-up with China the US would need to airdrop a ton of free shitcoins and promise not to surveil the little-guy below 5k  At the moment that looks unlikely to say the least, since that govt appears to be a junkie on the hard-drugs of neo-liberal economics and mass-surveillance that rivals, well . .  .left-fascist China. https://decrypt.co/110197/us-digital-currency-a-unanimous-need-to-compete-wi...