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 government / institutions buy the bitcoin, and sit on it, or rather let Coinbase sit on it. they then trade paper bitcoin and IOUs and futures and derivatives like they already do, not even touching the bitcoin that "backs" their financial system.

a transparent, auditable main chain exposes none of the shady business.

and they beat Bitcoin into submission. they never need to use it, they only need to "own" it.

 
 Time is the factor not taken into account here. 
 🔮 
 lmao at the maxis who seriously think the US government is going to spend their pentagon money through the bitcoin blockchain. how many cans of butane did they huff today 
 i would lmao but it's sad.