All this may be true but with all that money I'm sure they have some smart blockchain people working on a solution for them. For example Russia may issue their own cryptocurrency https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/15/russia-may-soon-issue-its-own-official-blockchain-based-currency-the-cryptoruble/ and the IMF could do the same https://cointelegraph.com/news/imf-could-issue-international-cryptocurrency-to-replace-dollar. So how would we be able to avoid their controlled cryptocurrency replacing their controlled fiat currency?
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What is really the difference between their crypto currency and their fiat? At the end of the day, they still control it which is counter to the decentralized system. So what that, in theory, they cant expand it at will (although on ETH they basically can).
The entire point of crypto is that nobody controls it...and the more these countries try, the worse they fail.
Would you by the russian token or LTC/BTC/DASH or whatever coin?
Why do people use their fiat currency? If those same conditions exist for their cryptocurrency then people will just switch and use that. So it really comes down to what do I need to use in order to get the things I need. So at that point you need critical mass of things being made available via a cryptocurrency (or any currency) that they don't control.
I would add that the IMF is also playing with the idea of using blockchain technology to back their currency with physical assets. Meaning that they will take the title of the asset and add it to the blockchain to use the asset as a backing for their cryptocurrency. I urge great caution as this idea is a way for them to then own all the titles as well as all the money. So we really need to be careful on what we support or propose as a solution.