I love this. It's my favorite cocktail conversation topic (which is why I have no friends).

First off: Yes I spend Bitcoin A LOT. But I purposely seek out merchants who accept it, and I order a lot online. I choose to vacation only in countries with high adoption, and use BTCMap.org to find local merchants when traveling.

A few thoughts:

The internet is also highly restricted in China, is it not? Yet, the internet is far too big of idea and has far too much global network-effect that the Chinese government can't stop it. I would bet that China contains a lot of people who know how to use VPN's, Tor, etc, in order to get around their government's attempt to control. The technology is more powerful than the government, and the people outnumber the government also.

Bitcoin is just as big of idea as the internet. It is built in a similar, decentralized manner. It has a massive global network effect. I'm tired of hearing Bitcoiners citing regulatory reasons for why Bitcoin adoption isn't happening. The real reason is because we've allowed Bitcoin to become a mostly KYC'd asset that can't technically scale to be a currency, even with the current L2's. Bitcoiners happily use fiat in their daily lives, and aren't prioritizing scaling solutions.

Governments can't regulate and suppress something like Bitcoin, or the internet. Unless the people allow them to. Which is exactly what's happening.