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Name an autocracy where a business can openly advertise and adopt accepting Bitcoin as a means for customers to pay for its goods or services without risking prosecution?
Whether by outright explicit ban or by absurdly burdensome and sly taxes, nearly all nations deliberately and effectively obstruct the widespread use of BTC as a MoE.
Because it is only when used as a P2P payment protocol (MoE) that Bitcoin really challenges the bankers and governments fiat monopoly over MoE.
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This is the exact contradiction. A medium of exchange doesn't need to be announced or have some sign hung on the doorpost before it can be used for the exchange of value by two agreeing parties.
However, I understand what you are talking about.
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You're likely contradicting "MoE" and "Legal tender," and a lot of other Bitcoiners do the same thing.
Bitcoin, as it is, is a medium of exchange. A medium of exchange is anything that can be used to exchange value in place of direct barter. A medium of exchange must be able to hold value across time, be divisible, non-perishable, fungible, and generally salable at any time, and Bitcoin serves that purpose comfortably. (The only challenge here is that Bitcoin's "value" in Fiat fluctuates, and Fiat is the predominant form of money before Bitcoin. But "value" in its real sense is what humans assign to a thing, and hence is rarely ever stable or the same. This is one of the reasons why the Fiat money issued by the government is a hoax and scam cos it is not based on real value for what it is worth as assigned by the users, but instead, an imposed Value by the controlling few.)
People in autocracies are not necessarily blocked from using Bitcoin as a medium of exchange. They are often prohibited from associating it with traditional Fiat financial rails in the said autocracies.
And because humans are inseparable from their government (which controls Fiat financial rails), they tend to abhor it completely when such restrictions happen to ensure they don't get ostracized from the predominant Fiat rails. But there has never been any autocracy that has successfully stopped anyone from exchanging Bitcoin for value.
The imposition of tax on Bitcoin is simply a move to reduce its use as a medium of exchange, and this is often when you use it via KYCed rails, but ultimately, nobody arrests you for using Bitcoin as a medium of exchange, especially when done p2p just as much as anyone could exchange gold for value or services, or other products, and wouldn't get arrested.
The only challenge with Bitcoin as a medium of exchange, especially in small-scale value exchange such as day-to-day trade, is Volatility. That is what those autocratic governments bank on to impose restrictions, ensuring that people who eventually use Bitcoin as a medium of exchange will have a hard time liquidating it to Fiat.
Then Western liberal countries wouldn't want to be seen as autocratic, hence they go the route of imposing taxation (often in excessive ratio).