Transition is always painful and if it is prolonged beyond a reasonable timeframe the public frustration rises as the masses tend to compare favourably the immediate past with their current state and an uncertain future.
The next few years will witness rising competition between central bank digital currencies and crypto-coins while gold should remain a reserve of last resort to anchor value and correct the intrinsic volatility of crypto.
From the early part of the morning of 16 December, the atmosphere all across the war zone in East Pakistan was electric, in anticipation of the surrender of the Pakistani Armed Forces.