Ross applied Bitcoin to enabling true free P2P trade. The nation state and its banker sponsors do not want that.

The nation states perhaps most potent strategic asset and economic leverage is its fiat monetary system payments hegemony. Ross challenged that and they locked him up!

They need Bitcoin consigned to a subservient role, as a harmless KYCed and taxed speculative commodity...and have largely succeeded in this.

Every zap is a small peaceful civil disobedience protest against the fiat debt slavery bankers cartel that owns your government.