am I missing something here or is this AOPP outrage really all for nothing?
People usually tend to react in the last minute with serious stuff and I think this was serious, but people won this battle for now.
Let me be clear, no regulators or governments can't do shit if enough people refuse to comply with them and obey their more and more crazy rules, regulations and taxes.
Same thing with AOPP, it's one tiny thing now, but it could grow into something much more dangerous if people didn't rise their voices.
Imagine that even AOPP website had to remove all wallets, and two wallets are removing direct AOPP protocol after just few days of complains.
If your country have some stupid rules like AOPP, protest and complain about that, don't just obey like a good little slave.
Totalitarians and ones aspiring to become that, can definitely make it hard to use cryptocurrencies; I agree. Especially stuff like Monero starts to be more and more 'criminalized'. It's a pity, but at a certain point, you can't solve the issues technologically. You can use a VPN - they can ban VPNs. You can use Tor - they can ban Tor. You see, this goes ad absurdum. In the end Bitcoiners will move out and create their own state or something. LOL!
This is the only way, but it's not that simple and most people are to lazy for this, they always want someone else to create something for them.
I think there was several attempts for creating city states on water, even theymos talked about this, but I haven't seen any real steps towards this.
Yes, there are some semi-states in neutral zones like Liberland, but they are not really free if you dive and research deeper about them.
For now best experiment we have (and it's not perfect) is El Salvador with bitcoin legal tender, but we need to go step further.