[DoctorOetker]

"It would be quite a twist if a technology whose most ardent fans are motivated by distrust of central banks became a key tool for those banks."

It's the other way around: the fact that publicly provable and verifiable financial systems are possible, yet the central banks didn't work this out (what they should have been striving for from the start), nor improve on it for another decade now is what fuels distrust of the old blindly trusted financial systems.

[ghthor]

Pretty much nails this on the head. The FED failed at its mission and is due for disruption. Considering how poorly our democratic system is working, it's too going to come from private or open source industry.