The government might want to do that. But what you are alleging here makes little logical sense, and we should keep Occam’s Razor in mind too.

First, if the CIA was willing and able to effect regime change in Ukraine, why not do it in Russia? Why not take out Putin? Because yall seem to think that Biden and his friends are living large off Ukraine, so it would make sense to prevent it from collapsing via Russia destroying the entire country.

Further, if FTX is being used to launder money to Dems, then why take it down? It was well known Fried was popular in DC. It seems strange he would be bankrupted by the pols who supposedly were friends with him and getting cash through his company. It is a lot easier to see that a 30 year was lending money back by crypto to an affiliated company on the hope that crypto currencies would only rise over time. This same scenario has played out with other crypto companies.

If DC wanted to destroy Bitcoin, it could simply ban it. It could direct the Fed and other banking regulators to not allow any U.S. company to process transactions in Bitcoin or accept it for goods and services.

I trust the government less than just about anybody given my political leanings. I want a lot less government so it has its hands on less things to mess up. But I also do not buy into wild conspiracy theories when there are much simpler explanations.

Are you buying more Bitcoin or pulling it out of the exchanges? I thought you said government couldn't stop Bitcoin, they can only hope to contain it.

Are you buying more Bitcoin or pulling it out of the exchanges? I thought you said government couldn't stop Bitcoin, they can only hope to contain it.

Government can't stop Bitcoin. They could criminalize its use as China did. But that won't really work. So the best way to "stop" Bitcoin is to convince people that it is "dangerous" or "risky."

I consider Bitcoin the currency of the future. But I think it's a good bet that it's a future I may not get to see.

Untethering money from government(s) is such a massive change that most people can't even recognize the implications of such at this point. And governments aren't going to free The People without a knockdown dragout fight.

So I already have enough Bitcoin. But if it gets to $15,000 I may pick up some more.

I have kept some on the Gemini and Coinbase exchanges in the past. I had some problems with Coinbase when I wanted to move a significant amount to my wallet so I stopped using that exchange. I wouldn't recommend holding Bitcoin on an exchange. Not even in "cold storage." Just get a wallet and your own keys.

I think it’s more likely government co-opts blockchain currencies and you wind up with even less control over your own money than you have today.

To think governments of the world couldn't slam Bitcoin into dust is a little naive.

It's a money system you can't buy anything with and now you can't store it anywhere outside of the equivalent of putting all your cash in a safe in your closet.

Bitcoin is looking like an example of inventing a problem and then looking for a solution to solve the problem you invented. I just don't see any advantage to having it outside of a bet that it will go up in value and I can sell it later on. What is the use case for bitcoin? What improves in my life for owning it? If I had $10k that I wanted to get out of US dollars why wouldn't I just buy $10k of gold and put it in my safe rather than $10k of bitcoin where I put it in my wallet and I hope I don't lose the password. At least I can destroy the safe and get my gold out if I forget the passcode.

There is no absolute/real freedom.

Why do you believe that and what do you think prevents it?