The government controls the majority of the world's gold reserves. You can bet that at the first sign of revolution, those are going to disappear, hoarded by the wealthy. Then, by moving to a gold standard, we would be handing them the keys to the kingdom. We would be doing the great reset all by ourselves.

By making it a cryptocurrency, we'll be able to allocate it all fairly and see who is hoarding it or using it for illegal purposes.