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Yeah, and in China there were cases were people have had their doors welded shut as a means to keep them in.

If Big Daddy gov wants to, it can take the air out of Bitcoin's tyres, but IMHO not without some immensely hard to back-up laws and moves on their citizens - All those efforts for a big "nothing burger" like Bitcoin?

I Doubt it.

IMHO They'll make some moves, but nothing quite strong enough to really make a dent - and suddenly it's too big to ban, pushing them to work with it, rather than against it.

why should they ban it? the chain is fully transparent, a surveillance dream for the government