Why do we need a decentralised currency, why do we need more than one decentralised currency?

I don't know how I missed this before, Edison's dollars in 1920 a decentralised currency, invented as an answer to the first pangs of the American Depression.

We never got taught this in history either, but it is more and more plain that the destructive trend in human civilisation after the industrialised carnage of the American civil war, was accelerated by the privatisation of the world currency, the dollar, to the Federal Reserve in December 1913.

How the world is implementing Edison's Dollars (AKA Bitcoin)

Published on 3 Dec 2013

Money Morning interview with Directory of Technology, Michael Robinson is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ1YI2H3O-Q

The Federal Reserve is one of the backbones of the American financial system, responsible for the nationâ€™s money supply and holder of the largest stash of gold in the world. But in early 2013, it was hacked.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy-policy/2014/02/27/british-hacker-charged-in-federal-reserve-breach/