With the value of cryptocurrencies rising so much, capital flight becomes a bigger issue for the Chinese government. They want stricter regulation and KYC procedures to keep people from violating their annual capital outflow quotas.
Exactly this. It is imperative that every Chinese citizen be prohibited from doing what they want with their money. Their financial freedom must be restricted at all costs. And the costs will be heavy. Like the space race of yore, governments are going to be forced to spend huge amounts of tax dollars collected from their citizens to attain their mission which is, in this case, to prevent them from spending their money on whatever they want )(last time it was to go to the moon). In fact, this problem will probably unite the governments of the world to work together in peace and love and harmony in order to fight and win this battle against the learning of blockchain technology. The knowledge of this advanced math must not spread no more!
Big governments were not able to restrict the proliferation of the knowledge of gravity or the solar system, but if 100% of every hard earned tax dollar must be spent fighting the knowledge of math and cryptography, then so be it. In fact, taxes are being raised to fight the knowledge spread of blockchain tech as we speak.
Forget what you know about bitcoin now before your government knows that you understand the math behind this new math discovery
This is awesome. Governments will soon unite agains bitcoin as a form of currency. It's already happening. However, the more distributed the network becomes, the less control they will have. Think about BitTorrent... anyone use that? It's a decentralized file sharing technology that can't be stopped because of how decentralized it is. Same goes for the darknet (albeit very different in nature).
Gov. cannot monitor, regulate and enforce laws on each individual's computer - or large decentralized networks mining Bitcoin. They can make it illegal, they can impose fines, but they cannot in all reality stop it... it's too big a beast to take down and there aren't enough SS agents to accomplish something like this.
... there will be a time in the future that we will need to choose - are we with them or against them. The day of reckoning is coming. What will you choose?