They are making sure that there is no alternative unless you are a 'Criminal'.
Easy to do when you can convince people to muzzle themselves and lay down and just die. A fake 'blockchain', using the aura of the 'good' when it is nothing but deeper evil.
I touched on this Flare thing because it is what looks to be something along the lines of the Transhumanist integration of human --> machine/blockchain/etc.
And ol Chronos is conjuncting.....oh boy, nothing to see here!
I mean, aren't "exchanges" antithetical to "privacy" anyway?
"Not your keys, Not your coins"?
Yes and no.
Or simply peer-to-peer.
And we yet again see how important 'TRUST' is.
In a different era maybe!
For now p2p requires Trust that unfortunately, has been crushed in this era....the conman runneth.
Perhaps we might spend a little more time building "circles of trust".
Those are called 'Secret Societies' ;)
GODDAMNIT.