Taking them under control involves extra steps, like creating your own cryptocurrency and banning all the "wrong" ones, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_ruble
This effectively shifts the perception of the general public: "It's not that these cryptocurrencies thingies that everyone's talking about are banned — it's just the bad ones, ones that are probably used by our enemies anyway"
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