Seeking to benefit from becoming a global leader in crypto is analogous to seeking to lead in illegal arms or drugs trade (though not as bad). So far crypto is IMO a large bad in the global economy.

"What you need to consider is that these people just aren't very bright." - Robin Ramsay (of Lobster) to me, on New Labour, circa 2000. And Blair/Brown/Mulgan/Giddens/etc look like the School of Athens next to Starmer/Reeves/McSweeney/er...

Blockchain, AI/ML are interesting and potential useful technologies. But the crypto and GenAI grifters are going to burn a lot of people