Looks like they're trying to play the part of a benevolent government. "It's for your own good". All of the (legal) exchanges operating in the U.S. have to report all transactions to the government already. This will make it much easier for the government to require all of the people holding alternative currencies to exchange them for the new digital currency. The new digital currency will be to the dollar standard what the federal reserve note was to the gold standard. Those who voluntarily buy in first and government secured corporations (who will be gifted private initial offerings to accept the new currency as payment) will benefit at a net loss to everyone else. The holdouts will be accused of squandering assets and making their fellow countrymen suffer. That's a partial picture of a possible future.