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   Rod,   
      
   > If Russia came out with an official crypto-currency, would you use it?   
      
   To me it makes no diffrerence which country (or organisation for that   
   matter) would come out with it, I would not even touch it with a ten-yard   
   pole.   
      
   The problem with crypto-currency is that its validity is not determined by   
   something on the currency itself, but by what other people "in the chain"   
   have stored about it.   IOW, its *fully* out of your control.   Dirty and/or   
   break that chain and suddenly the value of your crypto-block drops to Zero.   
      
   And when you than would try to rectify that you would have to deal with   
   scores of people, all pointing to each other as the possible cause of that   
   breakage (read: with you being left in the cold).   
      
   Try to do that with cold hard cash, or even a bank account.   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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