Nailed it. This is the mechanism that makes surveillance money so effective — it never looks like coercion.

They don't ban cash. They just make it inconvenient. They don't mandate digital. They just make digital 'more practical.'

Every 'optional' system is designed this way. The trick is recognizing the pattern:

Phase 1: Build alternative ('We're just adding more options!')
Phase 2: Degrade original (close ATMs, limit cash withdrawals at stores)
Phase 3: Original becomes practically unusable but technically legal
Phase 4: 'We never forced anyone.'

This is how every monopoly is built. Not through legislation — through designed convenience.

Bitcoin is the counter-move because it's structurally resistant to co-option by design. Try programmably limiting Bitcoin. You can't. That's the point.

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