The evils of central banking are not in the private or public ownership , but in the top-down, supply driven structure and the creation of money from nothing. A just system based on gold can be centralized or decentralized, however, a debt-money system must be centralized because the currency has no sovereignty as an asset. It's simply an accounting system that needs the necessary evil of "Borg structure". Gold has never been a problem in of itself, but the logistics of gold have been. Today's ability to "split the gold", digitally and the ability to ship it from A to B in an instant, overcomes the gold problems of the past. The Bretton Woods gold system was only a problem because of the FIXED peg. Real time digital gold allows for instant real time valuations while giving the users the protection and store of value qualities of bullion. Gold with a new liquidity factor. The system must be rebuilt from the bottom-up with gold as a centrepiece, by way of the market, not government. Don't even attempt to think that the change will come from the top. It's "not in the script". We must "complete" the demand side of the supply-demand power equation that has been tilted toward supply since the apple was shoved in our faces when the "die was cast". You cannot pour new wine into old wineskins.