And you seriously believe that TPTB would allow a competing currency to thrive in the shadows? Have you seen what's been happening to Syria, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and any other so-called "rogue nation" that is not part of the "globalist central bank"? Most of the negative propaganda you see concerning these countries is a cover story to explain the eventual seizing of their state-owned banks, ala Iraq, Afganistan & Libya over the last decade.