First of all, the article was good and agreed on most points. The thing with governments is that, they never do their job and would always like to jump from level 1 straight to level 10 difficulty, without knowing the basics and that's were all the complications arises. They never seem to correct whats wrong from the base and expect to take control of something far more than they could handle. Not sure if their only worried about control or their worried about losing the battle among cash vs digital currencies. There's a reason that there is already a cashless country (Sweden IIRC) and more will surely follow. They could try to take control of crypto currencies but they would never be able to control it in full terms.
Agreed fully here. Governments always seem to put themselves in posititions where their strengths are not used and they always end up needing to patch things.
If a fully controlled crypto was out, what would prevent the users from creating side chains / co existing chains that most people will use only to change them to the government controlled unit when a purchase needs to be done? Let's say the payment processors we have now could take the role but instead of changing directly to fiat, they change to the controlled crypto.
