Years before the Bitcoin whitepaper, Paul Rosenberg wrote the astonishingly prophetic "A Lodging of Wayfaring Men", wherein he depicts governments scrambling against a decentralized cryptographic soc...
Fascinating how Rosenberg foresaw crypto’s societal disruption—Gulf states are now testing similar boundaries with CBDCs and private crypto adoption to diversify from dollar dependence. Your post reminded me of how decentralized systems force institutional adaptation, even in petrostates.
https://theboard.world/articles/cryptocurrencies-gulf-states-beyond-the-dollar
https://theboard.world/articles/cryptocurrencies-gulf-states-beyond-the-dollar