I might not be understanding your premise exactly, but they might appeal to the "legal recourse" argument (if you get screwed by someone in the approved economy, you can use the state's legal system to seek compensation).

I assume there would also be the same smears that are currently made against Bitcoin that it's used by criminals, so using it is aiding criminals and makes you suspect as well.

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Also, I wanted to get your take on a question I've been wrestling with lately. Beyond CBDC's, we also need to worry about the BTC market ultimately fracturing into potentially "white-listed" (by the government) and "black-listed" (again, by the government, not by users) markets.

What kind of arguments could you see being raised by gov't to persuade unsuspecting, relatively unsophisticated normies to trudge over to the white-listed (but fake, I would posit) asset vs. the real deal?