I think any digital currency that uses heavy cryptography and blockchain technology or a similar network structure like DAG's is technically a cryptocurrency. This is how they will teach it I think.
The best thing to do is to make distinctions between free and decentralized cryptos and the other state/company controlled kind.
That those are coming isn't really any surprise and I think it will go a lot like Antonopoulus said in one of his lectures; what they will try to do is centralized the decentralized and close the open etc.... essentially taking away most of the characteristics that current open and decentralized blockchains possess. He also observed in a couple of lectures something that is already happening; people increasingly talk about blockchain and avoid bitcoin especially in the business sector.
I think governments see this also as a chance to extend their power and control and gradually get rid off cash. If they create a digital currency that they can control and oversee there will be no more movement of money they don't have their hands on. In countries like Australia and Germany (and I'm sure many others as well) financial ministers have been proposing banning cash a couple of times already.
China is very open about their strategy of total control and it's well known that they will try to do it. And they will probably be one of the first and most successful with their own state cryptocurrency, which I guarantee will be coming.
My hope is that in the long run decentralized cryptos and blockchains will prevail because the very characteristics they have are just hugely beneficial (to the majority of people and not the powerful few, anyways), but I'm not so confident anymore this will happen.
Big business is already largely taking over the whole blockchain space and many cryptos and tokens aren't all that decentralized. Steem in itself isn't really all that decentralized and just look around here on steemit most people are here for the money, last year the whole crypto space got flooded with money (and greed!), the anarchist and libertarian roots of all this are being drowned out day by day...
Anyways... I don't know
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