Of interest to me for a couple of reasons, one being that in the book I’m currently working on, Capital Crimes, I have a steampunk version of what’s described here as “Fedcoin”. It’s called the Realm Ledger, and it’s basically “what if the government ran a transactional computer system that kept track of everyone’s payments to each other, and their internal accounting as well, and didn’t charge you for it, because knowing exactly what the entire economy was doing would be so valuable?”

Via Singularity Hub.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610809/lets-destroy-bitcoin/