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Many people have been talking about a full government ban towards Bitcoin. Some said that Bitcoin could be banned the same way Gold was banned a couple of years ago. This is to prevent people from using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on top of Fiat. After all, governments want to control people's money. Something that's decentralized and outside the reach of the government, should be banned from the face of the Earth (according to governments' mindset).

What do you think? Will governments (especially the US government) ban Bitcoin like they did with Gold? Or is it too late to do something about it? Will Bitcoin survive if all governments unanimously agree to ban its usage worldwide? Your input will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. Smiley
Right now they cannot do it or people are not going to stop wondering why they are doing something like this when things like marijuana is being legalized, first we need to look at the circumstances that lead to the banning of gold ownership and it basically happened because the biggest crisis on the century hit governments incredibly hard.

And we are seeing that circumstances are aligning themselves with a new crisis coming during the next decade, so I think governments will at some point ban bitcoin, but things are not going to be as easy, people are going to do everything they can to maintain their wealth and if they have to choose between obeying the law and having the possibility of buying food they will choose the latter and will keep using bitcoin even if it is illegal.
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Even if they do, it is pointless. They will only hurt themselves more in the long run. The Genie, is out of the bottle, i cannot be put back no matter what.

So yeah, gov evasion is one of the things this was designed for since the beginning. Yeah they can bother people and oppress them, as the State is always ready to do; but that doesn't mean they can stop it. Hiding gold is much harder than hiding some words. And the beauty of it is that those words can carry $1 or the half the world's wealth. Takes the same space and effort to hide.

So yeah, State meddling with money, its over.
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Too late to ban it now, now that big money is involved and they are benefitting from taxes. Perhaps on some countries with little to no development on the cryptocurrency side of things, this is possible. But for those countries which already have established communities for bitcoin and crypto? It will be difficult. Besides, how would the ban play out if people can still use it underground? It's a futile endeavour, and probably just a waste of resources, too, for the government's side.
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Over 10 years is a long time and bitcoin has gone through a lot. If this was possible then we would have died already. So just relax, I think it's impossible to destroy all nodes and hypothetically say they destroyed all live nodes - how would anyone destroy the copies that are stored in individual drives?

I think it's worse than that. I think the whole world, the United Nations, G7 etc will do something to clamp down on Bitcoin because of electricity use and climate fears.
They can try and why would we think that they never tried it. It's just an angle to have debate and that's all. Practically, the possibility is near to zero.

Why even this topic today @OP? :-D

I said the international community would "clamp down" on it. I didn't say they would ban it like individual countries might be able to.

You need to read up on ESG in the wider investment universe to get some perspective on this, because it will affect the price big time.
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Over 10 years is a long time and bitcoin has gone through a lot. If this was possible then we would have died already. So just relax, I think it's impossible to destroy all nodes and hypothetically say they destroyed all live nodes - how would anyone destroy the copies that are stored in individual drives?

I think it's worse than that. I think the whole world, the United Nations, G7 etc will do something to clamp down on Bitcoin because of electricity use and climate fears.
They can try and why would we think that they never tried it. It's just an angle to have debate and that's all. Practically, the possibility is near to zero.

Why even this topic today @OP? :-D
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I think it's worse than that. I think the whole world, the United Nations, G7 etc will do something to clamp down on Bitcoin because of electricity use and climate fears.

I'm a long term hodler, but I've started selling for the first time because this is starting to worry me.

I'm anticipating a huge crash soon as these fears hit.

However, I will buy back in as I'm sure the cryto community will do something to mitigate this, like some miners are doing with green electricity.

Who knows... maybe it will move to proof of stake too.
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So that's like banning certain Base58 strings? Or banning the use of certain words? Good luck with that!

If they could ban Bitcoin, I think they would have done it by now. If my government bans my investment on which I've been paying taxes, I expect full compensation for my damages.
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Many people have been talking about a full government ban towards Bitcoin. Some said that Bitcoin could be banned the same way Gold was banned a couple of years ago. This is to prevent people from using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on top of Fiat. After all, governments want to control people's money. Something that's decentralized and outside the reach of the government, should be banned from the face of the Earth (according to governments' mindset).

What do you think? Will governments (especially the US government) ban Bitcoin like they did with Gold? Or is it too late to do something about it? Will Bitcoin survive if all governments unanimously agree to ban its usage worldwide? Your input will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. Smiley
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