In my more recent post on the upending of money and credit I draw another analogy, to the Gladiator movie. The current masters of the mint would very much like to do whatever in their power to see crypto go away. And they do wield considerable power.

Yet like Commodus in the Gladiator movie, their power springs from the peplum, the plebs. They can hardly risk upsetting the masses and the masses seem to like the crypto / "Spaniard". So all "Commodus" can do is point the thumb up and let "the Spaniard" live ...