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 In other words, you just hope that politics and governments will solve this? Hope in politics and governments should never be part of Bitcoin's security model and the fact that they're being in competition doesn't change anything. This has never worked out. In fact, governments know very well to stick together, when it comes to defending their monopoly on money (i.e. look at the FATF members, look at who pays into the IWF fund or the BIS members and which central banks from how many countries come together for a meeting) . If governments didn't want to steal our purchasing power, surveil and impose capital controls and tax upon us, why would they need Bitcoin for that? They could just stop doing all that shit. They don't refrain from doing it, because they don't want to. Hell, they're cracking down on their own government cash money. Why the hell should they embrace their citizens doing anonymous, untraceable and borderless payments? This doesn't make any sense.